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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 1920
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Battersea Borough]
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Sanitary Circumstances.
SANITARY INSPECTION OF THE BOROUGH.
Summary of Sanitary Operations for the Year 1920.
| Total Sanitary Operations | 80,091 | Houses supplied with water and fittings repaired | 230 |
| Number of house inspections | 45,628 | ||
| House to house inspections | 1,739 | Houses let in lodgings | 89 |
| Bakehouse inspections | 295 | No. of inspections | 267 |
| Bakehouse nuisances abated | 58 | Water Closets provided, supplied with water or supply discon-nected from drinking water cisterns | 120 |
| Urinals—inspections | 249 | ||
| Do. altered, repaired or water laid on | 105 | ||
| Intimations served under Sec. 3 | 3,644 | Cisterns covered, cleansed and repaired | 151 |
| Notices served under Sec. 4, &c. | 884 | ||
| Notices served under Secs. 62 & 65 | 1,382 | Additional water supplies to upper floors | 51 |
| Complaints received & attended to | 3,779 | ||
| Number of premises disinfected | 2,161 | Keeping of animals in unfit state discontinued | 45 |
| Houses supplied with disinfectants | 2,021 | ||
| House drains flushed with disinfec-tants after infectious disease | 1,742 | Smoke observations | 159 |
| Certificates of disinfection granted | 3,355 | ||
| Overcrowding abated | 12 | Houses inspected and certificates granted (Sec. 48) | 9 |
| Premises improved, cleansed and repaired | 2,751 | Proceedings ordered by Council and Health Committee | 3,692 |
| Drains tested By smoke | 703 | ||
| Do. ,, water | 1,349 | Summonses issued | 110 |
| Drains cleansed aud repaired | 258 | Magisterial Orders obtained and enforced | 58 |
| Drains relaid | 96 | ||
| Frontage drains constructed or re-constructed | 67 | Factories, Workshops, &c., inspec-tions | 3,899 |
| Soil pipes and drains ventilated | 67 | Sanitary conveniences provided or improvements effected in Factories & Workshops (Sec. 38) | 100 |
| Sink and rain-water pipes discon nected or repaired | 314 | ||
| Water Closets cleansed & repaired | 498 | ||
| Cesspools abolished | 1 | Underground sleeping rooms : | |
| Mews & Stables drained & paved | 6 | Use discontinued | 2 |
| Yards and forecourts paved and repaired | 235 | Defects remedied | 6 |
| Gipsy van inspections | 55 | ||
| Accumulations of manure and other obnoxious matter re-moved or proper receptacles provided | 18 | Drains laid to new houses and tenements | 9 |
| Samples taken under the Sale of Food and Drugs Acts | 1,000 | ||
| Dust receptacles provided | 752 | Miscellaneous | 2,088 |
| Leaky house-roofs and gutters repaired | 691 | ||