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Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
Battersea 1921
Report on the health of the Metropolitan Borough of Battersea for the year 1921
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Sanitary Circumstances.
SANITARY INSPECTION OF THE BOROUGH.
Summary of Sanitary Operations for the Year 1921.
| Total Sanitary Operations | 85,695 | Houses supplied with water and fittings repaired | 296 |
| Number of house inspections | 45,713 | ||
| House to house inspections | 941 | Houses let in lodgings | 85 |
| Bakehouse inspections | 285 | No. of inspections | 85 |
| Bakehouse nuisances abated | 67 | Water Closets provided, supplied with water or supply disconnected from drinking water cisterns | 247 |
| Urinals—inspections | 227 | ||
| Do. altered, repaired or water laid on | 98 | ||
| Intimations served under Sec. 3 | 4,159 | Cisterns covered, cleansed and repaired | 144 |
| Notices served under Sec. 4, &c. | 914 | ||
| Notices served under Secs. 62 & 65 | 2,139 | Additional water supplies to upper floors | 31 |
| Complaints received & attended to | 3,731 | ||
| Number of premises disinfected | 2,815 | Keeping of animals in unfit state discontinued | 36 |
| Houses supplied with disinfectants | 2,733 | ||
| House drains flushed with disinfectants after infectious disease | 2,185 | Smoke observations | 145 |
| Certificates of disinfection granted | 6,312 | ||
| Overcrowding abated | 12 | Houses inspected and certificates granted (Sec. 48) | 6 |
| Premises improved, cleansed and repaired | 3,758 | Proceedings ordered by Council and Health Committee | 4,210 |
| Drains tested By smoke | 761 | ||
| Do. ,, water | 1,055 | Summonses issued | 70 |
| Drains cleansed and repaired | 254 | Magisterial Orders obtained and enforced | 13 |
| Drains relaid | 77 | ||
| Frontage drains constructed or re-constructed | 9 | Factories, Workshops, &c., inspections | 3,993 |
| Soil pipes and drains ventilated | 98 | Sanitary conveniences provided or improvements effected in Factories & Workshops (Sec. 38) | 87 |
| Sink and rain-water pipes disconnected or repaired | 360 | ||
| Water Closets cleansed & repaired | 605 | ||
| Cesspools abolished | — | Underground sleeping rooms: Use discontinued | 1 |
| Mews & Stables drained & paved | 4 | ||
| Yards and forecourts paved and repaired | 165 | Defects remedied | — |
| Gipsy van inspections | 32 | ||
| Accumulations of manure and other obnoxious matter removed or proper receptacles provided | 12 | Drains laid to new houses and tenements | 6 |
| Samples taken under the Sale of Food and Drugs Acts | 1,000 | ||
| Dust receptacles provided | 733 | Miscellaneous | 2,638 |
| Leaky house-roofs and gutters repaired | 829 |