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 Wimbledon]
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The following table gives a summary of the nuisances abated and the sanitary improvements carried out, together with the defects remedied, as the result of house-to-house inspection under the supervision of the Sanitary Inspectors:—
Cisterns provided | 12 |
Cisterns repaired, cleansed or covered | 22 |
Drains, new, provided | 56 |
Drainage systems made water-tight by patent process | 15 |
Drains, repaired or altered | 6G |
Drains, stoppages removed | 52 |
Dustbins provided | 281 |
Flushing cisterns, new, provided | 51 |
Flushing cisterns repaired | 104 |
Manure receptacles provided | 1 |
Rain-water pipes disconnected | 9 |
Roofs repaired | 334 |
Rooms stripped and cleansed | 1,448 |
Verminous rooms cleansed | 45 |
Soilpipes, new, provided | 17 |
Soilpipes, repaired or altered | 2 |
Vent pipes, new, provided | 18 |
Vent pipes, repaired or altered | 40 |
Waste pipes, new, provided | 88 |
Waste pipes, repaired, disconnected or trapped | 55 |
Water-closets, new, provided | 118 |
Water-closets, repaired or ventilated | 19 |
Water services restored | 21 |
Yards paved | 39 |
Yards repaired | 108 |
Guttering repaired | 176 |
Floors ventilated | 48 |
Nuisances from damp walls abated | 428 |
Water supply tap direct from main | 5 |
Sinks provided | 60 |
Rooms fumigated | 468 |
Other nuisances | 2,861 |
Total | 7,101 |
Houses-Let-in-Lodgings.—There are now sixty-nine of
these houses on the register. Some of them require constant
supervision by the Sanitary Inspectors and for this reason
eighty-six visits of inspection were made to these premises
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