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.
The following table sets out in summarised form the details of
the main work of the Department in relation to sanitation:—
Summary of Main Operations for the Year 1953.
Sanitary Operations.
Inspections- | New houses-certificates issued re water supply | 464 | |
New houses | 464 | ||
House-to-house | - | Houses supplied with water and fittings repaired | 30 |
Houses let in separate tenements | - | ||
Houses-following complaints | 4,196 | Additional water supplies to tenement houses | |
Houses-following infectious disease | 1,812 | Water closets provided, supplied with water, or supply disconnected from drinking water cisterns | 15 |
Gipsy vans | 11 | ||
Public urinals and chalets | 71 | ||
Re-inspections | 19,151 | ||
Other visits | 2,323 | Water closets and urinals cleansed and repaired | 347 |
Notices served- | |||
Intimations | 2,058 | Drinking water cisterns cleansed and repaired | 71 |
Statutory (Sec. 197 and 200) | 158 | ||
Rain-water and waste pipes disconnected or repaired | 214 | ||
Statutory (Fifth Schedule) 992 | |||
Summonses issued | 91 | ||
Magisterial Orders obtained | 55 | Soil pipes and drains ventilated | 96 |
Drains laid to new houses | 464 | Defective roofs and gutters repaired | 944 |
Drains relaid (wholly or partly) | 14 | ||
Dustbins provided | 26 | ||
Drains cleansed and rePaired | 215 | Yards paved or repaired | 79 |
Premises disinfected | 857 | ||
Drains tested (smoke) | 208 | Persons cleansed (including 1,943 children) | 2,087 |
Found defective | 34 | ||
Drains tested (water) | 1,438 | Articles disinfected | 7,380 |
Drainage plans received | 123 | Rodent Control- | |
Frontage drains constructed or reconstructed | 21 | Premises infested | 452 |
Inspections | 6,776 |
Protection of Food Supply.
inspections— | Inspections—contd. | ||
Butchers' and other | Ice cream premises | 302 | |
food shops | 1,076 | Restaurant kitchens | 909 |
Fish shops | 299 | Samples taken | 586 |
Food storage premises | 252 | Summonses issued | 5 |
Dairies and milk shops | 302 |
Factories, Workshops and Shops.
Inspections— | Inspections—contd. | ||
Shops | 61 | Outworkers | 1,203 |
do. (Pharmacy Act) | 19 | Smoke observations | 180 |
Rag flock | 11 | Intimation notices served | 34 |
Pet shops | 15 | Statutory notices served | 1 |
Factories | 1,967 | Summonses issued | — |