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Battersea 1913
Report on the health of the Metropolitan Borough of Battersea for the year 1913
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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 1913.
| Total Sanitary Operations | 75,641 | Leaky house-roofs and gutters repaired | 582 |
| Number of house inspections | 46,374 | ||
| Bakehouse inspections | 222 | Houses supplied with water, and fittings repaired | 126 |
| Bakehouse nuisances abated | 47 | ||
| Urinals—inspections | 157 | Water Closets provided, supplied with water or supply disconnected from drinking water cisterns | 459 |
| Do altered, repaired or water laid on | 58 | ||
| Intimations served under Sec. 3 | 4,172 | ||
| Notices served under Sec. 4, &c. | 1,268 | Cisterns covered, cleansed and repaired | 560 |
| Notices served under Sec. 62 & 65 | 1,992 | ||
| Complaints received & attended to | 2,748 | Additional water supplies to upper floors | 107 |
| Number of houses disinfected | 3,237 | ||
| Houses supplied with disinfectants | 3,519 | Keeping of animals in unfit state discontinued | 43 |
| House drains flushed with disinfectants after infectious disease | 1,765 | ||
| Smoke observations | 40 | ||
| Overcrowding abated | 68 | Certificates of disinfection granted | 2,966 |
| Premises improved, cleansed and repaired | 3,010 | Houses inspected and certificates granted (Sec. 48) | 81 |
| Drains tested ... By smoke | 1,032 | Proceedings ordered by Council and Health Committee | 3,866 |
| ,, water | 2,597 | ||
| Drains cleansed and repaired ... | 445 | Summonses issued | 95 |
| Drains relaid | 329 | Magisterial Orders obtained and enforced | 44 |
| Frontage drains constructed or re-constructed | 34 | ||
| Factories, Workshops, &c., inspections | 3,956 | ||
| Soil pipes and drains ventilated | 131 | ||
| Sink and rain water pipes disconnected or repaired | 523 | Sanitary conveniences provided or improvements effected in Factories & Workshops (Sec. 38) | 377 |
| Water Closets cleansed & repaired Cesspools abolished | 745 | ||
| Mews & Stables drained & paved | 7 | Underground sleeping rooms disused | 112 |
| Yards and forecourts paved and repaired | 427 | ||
| Gipsy van inspections | 84 | ||
| Accumulations of manure and other obnoxious matter removed or proper receptacles provided | 43 | Drains laid to new houses and tenements | 81 |
| Samples taken under the Sale of Food and Drugs Acts | 1,000 | ||
| Dust receptacles provided | 486 | Miscellaneous | 379 |
Sanitation of House Property.
The systematic inspection of house property is carried out
by eight district inspectors, the Borough being divided for this
purpose into eight sanitary districts.