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Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
Battersea 1923
Report on the health of the Metropolitan Borough of Battersea for the year 1923
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Sanitary Circumstances.
SANITARY INSPECTION OF THE BOROUGH.
Summary of Sanitary Operations for the Year 1923.
| Total Sanitary Operations | 68,283 | Dust receptacles provided | 641 |
| Number of house inspections | 36,930 | Leaky house-roofs and gutters repaired | 946 |
| House to house inspections | 1.051 | ||
| Bakehouse inspections | 298 | Houses supplied with water and fittings repaired | 284 |
| Bakehouse nuisances abated | 41 | ||
| Urinals—inspections | 149 | Houses let in lodgings registered | 85 |
| Do. altered, repaired or water laid on | 73 | No. of inspections of do. Water Closets provided, | 255 |
| Intimations served under Sec.3 | 3,648 | supplied with water or supply disconnected from drinking water cisterns | 225 |
| Notices served under Sec.4,&c. | 974 | ||
| Notices served under Sees. 62 & 65 | 866 | ||
| Cisterns covered, cleansed and repaired | 91 | ||
| Complaints received and attended to | 3,476 | ||
| Additional water supplies to upper floors | 29 | ||
| Number of premises disinfected | 1,752 | ||
| Houses supplied with disinfectants | 1,685 | Keeping of animals in unfit state discontinued | 19 |
| Overcrowding abated | 13 | Smoke observations | 178 |
| Premises improved, cleansed and repaired | 2,883 | Certificates of disinfection granted | 2,251 |
| Drains tested By smoke Do. „ water | 540 1,153 | Houses inspected and certificates granted (Sec. 48) | 48 |
| Drains cleansed and repaired | 280 | Proceedings ordered by Council and Health Committee | 3,725 |
| Drains relaid | 118 | ||
| Frontage drains constructed or re-constructed | 34 | Summonses issued | 80 |
| Magisterial Orders obtained and enforced | 27 | ||
| Soil pipes and drains ventilated | 117 | ||
| Sink and rain-water pipes disconnected or repaired | 473 | Factories, Workshops, &c., inspections | 4,083 |
| Water Closets cleansed and repaired | 502 | Sanitary conveniences provided or improvements effected in Factories and Workshops (Sec. 38) | 136 |
| Cesspools abolished | — | ||
| Mews and Stables drained and paved | — | ||
| Underground sleeping rooms: | |||
| Yards and forecourts paved and repaired | 229 | Use discontinued | — |
| Defects remedied | — | ||
| Accumulations of manure and other obnoxious matter removed or proper receptacles provided | 19 | Gipsy van inspections | 46 |
| Drains laid to new houses and tenements | 48 | ||
| Samples taken under the Sale of Food and Drugs Acts | 1.200 | ||
| Miscellaneous | 1,703 |