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Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
Wimbledon 1940
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Wimbledon]
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| Reason of Visit. | No. |
|---|---|
| Infectious Diseases | 586 |
| House Inspections | 4336 |
| Inspections under Housing Acts 1936 | 229 |
| House to House Inspections | 598 |
| Rent Act Inspections | 6 |
| Houses Let in Lodgings Inspections | - |
| Inspection of Factories, Workshops, Workplaces and Outworkers' premises | 120 |
| Dairies and Cowsheds Inspections | 78 |
| Inspections under Shops Acts | 131 |
| Application of Tests to Drains | 56 |
| Inspections under Diseases of Animals' Acts | 7 |
| Obtaining Samples of Foods and Drugs | 121 |
| Miscellaneous (including Inspections of Food, Slaughterhouses, mews, stables, caravans, Petroleum Acts, water supply, piggeries, mosquitoes, etc.) | 1590 |
| Total | 7642 |
Notices Served.- One thousand and six preliminary notices or
intimations were served during the year.
It was found necessary to serve two hundred and forty Statutory
Notices,
House Inspection.- The following table gives a summary of the nuisances abated and the sanitary improvements carried out, together with the defects remedied, as a result of house to house inspection under the supervision of the Sanitary Inspectors;-
| Accumulations removed | 23 |
| Cisterns provided | 1 |
| Cisterns repaired, cleansed or covered | 5 |
| Drains, new, provided | 36 |
| Drainage systems made water-tight by patent process | |
| Drains, repaired or altered | 29 |
| Drains, stoppages removed | 60 |
| Dustbins provided | 286 |
| Flushing cisterns, new, provided | 13 |
| Flushing cisterns repaired | 45 |
| Manure receptacles provided | 1 |
| Rain-water pipes disconnected | 2 |
| Roofs repaired | 200 |
| Rooms stripped and cleansed | 367 |
| Verminous rooms cleansed | 71 |
| Soilpipes, new, provided | 6 |
| Soilpipes, repaired or altered | 7 |
| Vent pipes, new, provided | 6 |
| Vent pipes, repaired or altered | 8 |
| Waste pipes, new, provided | 25 |
| Waste pipes, repaired, disconnected or trapped | 15 |
| Water-closets, new, provided | 57 |
| Water-closets, repaired or ventilated | 8 |
| Water services restored | 77 |
| Yards paved | 6 |
| Yards repaired | 63 |
| Guttering repaired | 81 |
| Floors ventilated | 17 |
| Nuisances from damp walls abated | 309 |
| Sinks provided | 6 |
| Other nuisances | 1212 |
| Rooms disinfected | 314 |
| Total | 3,356 |
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