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Battersea 1907
Report on the health of the Metropolitan Borough of Battersea for the year 1907
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General Sanitary Administration.
The following table gives a summary of the work of the
sanitary inspectors, so far as the work admits of tabulation.
Summary of Sanitary Operations for the Year 1907.
Total Sanitary Operations 84127
Number of house inspections 44450
Bakehouse inspections 232
Bakehouse nuisances abated 78
Urinals—inspections 425
Do. altered, repaired, or water
laid on 124
Intimations served under Sec. 3 5794
Notices served under Sec. 4, &c. 1506
Notices served under Sec. 62 & 65 2698
Complaints received & attended to 3903
Number of houses disinfected 2998
Houses supplied with disinfectants 6133
House drains flushed with disinfectants
after infectious
disease 2987
Overcrowding abated 129
Premises cleansed and repaired 2515
Drains tested By smoke 1213
,, water 4688
Drains cleansed and repaired 422
Drains relaid 534
Frontage drains constructed or
re-constructed 79
Soil-pipes and drains ventilated 449
Sink and rain water pipes disconnected
or repaired 453
Water Closets cleansed & repaired 880
Cesspools abolished —
Mews & Stables drained & paved 11
Yards and forecourts paved 828
Accumulations of manure and
other obnoxious matter removed
or proper receptacles
provided 116
Dust receptacles provided 652
Leaky house-roofs and gutters
repaired 728
Houses supplied with water, and
fittings repaired 285
Water closets supplied with water
or supply disconnected from
drinking water cisterns 783
Cisterns covered, cleansed and
repaired 904
Keeping of animals in unfit state
discontinued 88
Smoke observations 205
Certificates of disinfection granted 3123
Houses inspected and certificates
granted (Sec. 48) 31
Proceedings Ordered by Council
and Health Committee 5158
Summonses issued 194
Magisterial Orders obtained and
enforced 107
Factories, Workshops,&c. ,inspections
4429
Sanitary conveniences provided
or improvements effected in
Factories & Workshops (Sec.
38) 335
Underground sleeping rooms
disused 91
Gipsy van inspections 224
Drains laid to new houses and
tenements 31
Samples taken under the Sale of
Food and Drugs Acts 1000