Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
Report on the health of the Metropolitan Borough of Battersea for the year 1910
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General Sanitary Administration.
The following table gives a summary of the work of the
Sanitary Inspectors as far as the work admits of tabulation:—
Summary of Sanitary Operations for the Year 1910.
Total Sanitary Operations | 77,888 | Leaky house-roofs and gutters repaired | 467 |
Number of house inspections | 44,748 | ||
Bakehouse inspections | 227 | Houses supplied with water, and fittings repaired | 159 |
Bakehouse nuisances abated | 43 | ||
Urinals—inspections | 197 | Water closets provided, supplied with water or supply disconnected from drinking water cisterns | 547 |
Do altered, repaired or water laid on | 63 | ||
Intimations served under Sec. 3 | 4,318 | ||
Notices served under Sec. 4, &c. | 1,317 | Cisterns covered, cleansed and repaired | 618 |
Notices served under Sec. 62 &65 | 2,039 | ||
Complaints received & attended to | 3,763 | Additional water supplies to upper floors | 126 |
Number of houses disinfected | 2,337 | ||
Houses supplied with disinfectants | 5,278 | Keeping of animals in unfit state discontinued | 58 |
House drains flushed with disinfectants after infectious disease | 2,337 | Smoke observations | 51 |
Overcrowding abated | 79 | Certificates of disinfectiongranted | 1,847 |
Premises improved, cleansed and repaired | 3,246 | Houses inspected and certificates granted (Sec. 48) | 83 |
Drains tested By smoke. | 783 | Proceedings ordered by Council and Health Committee | 3,790 |
„ water. | 3,180 | ||
Drains cleansed and repaired | 419 | Summonses issued | 139 |
Drains relaid | 452 | Magisterial Orders obtained and enforced | 79 |
Frontage drains constructed or re-constructed | 51 | ||
Soil-pipes and drains ventilated | 132 | Factories,Workshops,&c.,inspections | 4,599 |
Sink and rain water pipes disconnected or repaired | 722 | Sanitary conveniences provided or improvements effected in Factories&Workshops (Sec. 38) | 386 |
Water Closets cleansed&repaired | 488 | ||
Cesspools abolished | — | ||
Mews & Stables drained & paved | 8 | Underground sleeping rooms disused | 33 |
Yards and forecourts paved and repaired | 498 | Gipsy van inspections | 78 |
Accumulations of manure and other obnoxious matter removed or proper receptacles provided | 85 | Drains laid to new houses and tenements | 83 |
Samples taken under the Sale of Food and Drugs Acts | 1,000 | ||
Dust receptacles provided | 474 | Miscellaneous | 667 |