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Wimbledon 1943
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Wimbledon]
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Sanitary Inspection of district.- The following is a statment showing the number and nature of inspection made for the year 1943.
| Reason of Visit | No. |
| Infectious Diseases | 681 |
| House Inspections | 3,505 |
| Inspections under Housing Acts, 1936 | 136 |
| House to House Inspections | 897 |
| Rent Act Inspections | 4 |
| Houses Let in Lodgings Inspections | — |
| Inspection of Factories, Workshops, Workplaces and Outworkers' premises | 107 |
| Dairies and Cowsheds Inspections | 77 |
| Inspections under Shops Acts | 9 |
| Application of Tests to Drains | 113 |
| Inspections under Diseases of Animals' Acts | - |
| Obtaining Samples of Foods and Drugs | 195 |
| Miscellaneous (including Inspections of Feed, slaughterhouses, news, stables, caravans, Petroleum Acts, water supply, piggeries, mosquitoes, etc.) | 3,068 |
| Total | 8,774 |
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Notices Served. - One thousand two hundred and thirty one
preliminary notices or intimations were served during the year.
It was found necessary to serve two hundred and eleven 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 | 47 |
| Cisterns provided | - |
| Cisterns repaired, cleansed or covered | 15 |
| Drains, new, provided | 54 |
| Drainage systems made water-tight by patent process | 27 |
| Drains, repaired or altered | 37 |
| Drains, stoppages removed | 66 |
| Dustbins provided | 181 |
| Flushing cisterns, new, provided | 12 |
| Flushing cisterns, repaired | 73 |
| Manure receptacles provided | 1 |
| Rain-water pipes disconnected | 4 |
| Roofs repaired | 284 |
| Rooms stripped and cleansed | 451 |
| Verminous rooms cleansed | 44 |
| Soilpipes, new, provided | 4 |
| Soilpipes, repaired or altered | 4 |
| Vent pipes, new, provided | 8 |
| Vent pipes, repaired or altered | 13 |
| Waste pipes, new, provided | 17 |
| Waste pipes, repaired, disconnected or trapped | 22 |
| Water-closets, new,provided | 50 |
| Water-closets, repaired or ventilated | 12 |
| Water services restored | 26 |
| Water supply direct from main | 3 |
| Yards paved | 13 |
| Yards repaired | 12 |
| Guttering repaired | 146 |
| Floors ventilated | 5 |
| Nuisances from damp walls abated | 203 |
| Sinks provided | 8 |
| Other nuisances | 1,597 |
| Rooms disinfected | 639 |
| Total | 4,078 |
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