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70 Report of the Medical Officer of Health.
These numbers include the house-to-house inspections made,
and to retain a permanent and easily accessible record of the work
under this heading tables are given showing the names of streets
inspected, the number of houses inspected, the number of houses
in which defects were found, the percentage of defects to houses
inspected, as well as the number of families living in one, two,
three, and four rooms and upwards.
A summary is also given showing these details for the whole
Borough, and for each ward in the Borough.
In column 3 where the percentage of defects to houses
examined is given, it is to be noted that all defects, slight and
serious, are taken into consideration, and that the highest percentage
among the houses inspected during the year was in the
Balham Ward.
The greatest number of families living in one room was in
the South Ward, Clapham. The percentage of persons living in
one room to the total families among the houses inspected was
as follows:—Clapham North 7.1, Clapham South 15.4, Putney I,
Streatham .58, Balham 4, Tooting 1.7, Southfield 5.1, Fairfield
10.1, and Springfield 1.1.
The first item in the Table of Sanitary Operations is inserted
for the first time, and includes complaints made to the Sanitary
Inspectors when inspecting after notification of infectious disease.
The number of preliminary Notices served is under last year,
this being largely due to the decrease in house-to-house inspections,
but the number of statutory Notices has increased from 702
to 773.