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Medical Officers of Health Annual Report.
Only two notices of sanitary defects in workshops
were received during the year from the Factory Inspector,
and these were at once attended to and the usual notice
forwarded to the Factory Inspector when the defects were
remedied.
Houses Let in
Lodgings.
During the year, the Sanitary Inspectors have
in their house-to-house inspection, come across
some houses which were let to more than two families. I
have personally visited most of these, and in consequence,
reported to the Board, that it would be desirable to
register them as houses let in lodgings, in order that
cleanliness and overcrowding of such premises could be
more expeditiously dealt with. At the present time there
are on the register 13 houses, and these have been during
the year regularly inspected.
In this parish there are a large number of houses
which come under the Bye-laws, being let to members of
more than one family, and the register will be added to as
occasion requires. Before registration, each case is dealt
with separately by the Board, and an order made for
registering these houses if such is deemed necessary,
particularly for prevention of overcrowding.
I have again much pleasure in testifying to the
satisfactory manner in which the Sanitary Inspectors have
performed their duties.
P. CALDWELL SMITH,
M.A.., M.D., D.P.H , CAMB.,
Medical Officer of Health for Wandtworth.