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Battersea 1932
[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 1932.
| Total Sanitary Operations | 74,778 | Leaky house-roofs and gutters repaired | 931 |
| Number of house inspections | 40,550 | ||
| House to house inspections | 1.053 | Houses supplied with water and fittings repaired | 92 |
| Bakehouse inspections | 225 | ||
| Bakehouse nuisances abated | 37 | Houses let in separate tenements on register | 65 |
| Urinals—inspections | 225 | ||
| Do. altered, repaired or water laid on | 42 | No. of inspections of do. | 337 |
| Water closets provided, supplied with water or supply disconnected from drinking water cisterns | 17 | ||
| Intimations served under Sec.3 | 3,422 | ||
| Notices served under Sec.4,&c. | 1,095 | ||
| Notices served under Sees. 62 & 65 | 4,231 | ||
| Cisterns covered, cleansed and repaired | 148 | ||
| Complaints received and attended to | 4,098 | ||
| Additional water supplies to upper floors | 18 | ||
| Number of premises disinfected | 2,417 | ||
| Houses supplied with disinfectants | 423 | Keeping of animals in unfit state discontinued | 14 |
| Overcrowding abated | 39 | Smoke observations | 21 |
| Premises improved, cleansed and repaired | 2,877 | Certificates of disinfection granted | 5,705 |
| Drains tested By smoke | 530 | Houses inspected and certificates granted (Sec. 48) | 92 |
| Do. „ water | 2,031 | ||
| Drains cleansed and repaired | 440 | Proceedings ordered by Council and Health Committee | 3,440 |
| Drains relaid | 135 | ||
| Frontage drains constructed or re-constructed | 42 | Summonses issued | 53 |
| Magisterial Orders obtained and enforced | 21 | ||
| Soil pipes and drains ventilated | 142 | ||
| Sink and rain-water pipes disconnected or repaired | 286 | Factories, Workshops, &c., inspections | 3,556 |
| Water closets cleansed and repaired | 680 | Sanitary conveniences provided or improvements effected in Factories and Workshops (Sec. 38) | 83 |
| Mews and stables drained and paved | 1 | ||
| Underground sleeping rooms: Use discontinued | 4 | ||
| Yards and forecourts paved and repaired | 329 | ||
| Defects remedied | 3 | ||
| Accumulations of manure and other obnoxious matter removed or proper receptacles provided | 1 | Gipsy van inspections | 70 |
| Drains laid to new houses and tenements | 92 | ||
| Samples taken under the Food and Drugs (Adulteration) Act | 1,200 | ||
| Dust receptacles provided | 958 | ||
| Miscellaneous | 2,177 |