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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Sanitary Inspection of District.- The following is a statement showing tho number ahd; nature of inspections made for tho year 1941.
Reason of Visit | No. |
---|---|
Infectious Disoases | 548 |
House Inspections | 3074 |
Inspections under Housing Acts 1936 | 27 |
Houso to House Inspections | - |
Rant Act Inspections | 3 |
Houses Let in Lodgings Inspections | - |
Inspection of Factories, Workshops, Work- | 118 |
Dairies and Cowsheds Inspections | 51 |
Inspections under Shops Acts | 22 |
Application of Tests to Drains | 85 |
Inspections under Diseases of Animals' Acts | 41 |
Obtaining Samples of Foods and Drugs | 255 |
Miscellaneous (including Inspections of Food, slaughterhouses, mews, stables, caravans, Petroleum Acts, water supply, piggeries, | 2626 |
Total | 6850 |
Notices Served.Six hundred and seventy-one preliminary notices
or intimations were served during the year.
It was found necessary to serve one hundred and fifty 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 tho Sanitary Inspectors:-
29 | |
Cisterns provided | - |
Cisterns repairedf cleansed or covered.. | 5 |
Drains, now, provided | 21 |
Drainago systems made wator-tight b;,' patent process | 3 |
Drains, repaired or altered | 30 |
Drains, stoppages removed | 31 |
Dustbins provided | 57 |
Flushing cisterns, new, provided | 3 |
Flushing cisterns repaired | 37 |
Manure receptacles provided | - |
Rain-water pipes disconnected | 1 |
Roofs repaired | 192 |
Rooms stripped and cleansed | 298 |
Verminous rooms cleansed | 23 |
Soilpipes, new, provided | 4 |
Soilpipes, repaired or altered | - |
Vent pipes, new, provided | 6 |
Vent pipos, repaired or altered | 9 |
Waste pipos, new, provided | 9 |
Waste pipes, repaired, disconnected or trapped | 11 |
Water-closets,new,provided | 29 |
Water-closets, repaired or ventilated | 10 |
Water services restored | 19 |
Water supply direct from main | 4 |
Yards paved | 6 |
Yaeds repaired | 25 |
Grttering repaired | 87 |
Floors ventilated | 9 |
Nuisances from damp walls abated | 185 |
Sinks provided | 2 |
Other nuisances | 792 |
Rooms disinfected | 356 |
Total | 2293 |
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