Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
[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 1938.
Complaints attended to | 3 399 | Water closets cleansed and repaired | 836 |
Number of house inspections | 37,801 | ||
House to house inspections | 1,361 | Cesspools abolished | — |
Houses let in separate tenements on register | 65 | Urinals—inspections | 56 |
Do. cleansed, altered, repaired or water laid on | 40 | ||
No. of inspections of do. | 275 | ||
Shops Act inspections | 33 | Dust receptacles provided | 190 |
Premises improved, cleansed and repaired | 2,636 | Accumulations of manure and other obnoxious matter removed or proper receptacles provided | 8 |
Underground rooms: | |||
Use discontinued | 86 | ||
Rooms rendered fit | 127 | ||
Keeping of animals in unfit state discontinued | 4 | ||
Overcrowding abated | 196 | ||
Leaky house-roofs and gutters repaired | 744 | Gipsy van inspections | 20 |
Factories, &c., inspections | 2,479 | ||
Yards and forecourts paved and repaired | 555 | Sanitary conveniences provided or improvements effected in Factories (Sec. 7) | 23 |
Drains laid to new houses and tenements | 114 | ||
Bakehouse inspections | 92 | ||
Drains tested—Smoke tests | 188 | Bakehouse nuisances abated | 37 |
Do. Water teste | 1,446 | Smoke observations | 73 |
Drains relaid (wholly or partly) | 67 | Premises disinfected | 2,397 |
Houses supplied with disinfectants | 77 | ||
Drains cleansed and repaired | 352 | ||
Frontage drains constructed or re-constructed | 25 | Certificates of disinfection granted | 3,628 |
Mews and stables drained and paved | - | ||
Intimation notices | 3,031 | ||
Statutory Notices— | |||
Soil pipes and drains ventilated | 174 | Sections 197 & 200 | 3,159 |
Sink and rain-water pipes disconnected or repaired | 565 | Fifth schedule, &c. | 1,262 |
Proceedings ordered by Council and Health Committee | 3,086 | ||
Houses inspected and certificates granted (Sec. 95) | 114 | Summonses issued | 83 |
Houses supplied with water and fittings repaired | 37 | Magisterial Orders obtained and enforced | 61 |
Cisterns covered, cleansed or repaired | 95 | Samples taken under the Food and Drugs (Adulteration) Act | 1,200 |
Additional water supplies to tenement houses | 24 | Miscellaneous | 3,537 |
Total sanitary operations | 73,231 | ||
Water closets provided, supplied with water or supply disconnected from drinking water cisterns | 56 |