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Battersea 1925

Report on the health of the Metropolitan Borough of Battersea for the year 1925

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Sanitary Circumstances.
SANITARY INSPECTION OF THE BOROUGH.

Summary of Sanitary Operations for the Year 1925.

Summary of Sanitary Operations for the Year 1925.
Total Sanitary Operations65,400Dust receptacles provided582
Number of house inspections34,744Leaky house-roofs and gutters repaired858
House to house inspections ...644
Bakehouse inspections280Houses supplied with water and fittings repaired210
Bakehouse nuisances abated38
Urinals—inspections140Houses let in lodgings registered85
Do. altered, repaired or water laid on47No. of inspections of do.46
Water Closets provided, supplied with water or supply disconnected from drinking water cisterns208
Intimations served under Sec.33,059
Notices served under Sec.4, Ac.762
Notices served under Sees. 62 & 652,854
Cisterns covered, cleansed and repaired81
Complaints received and attended to3,294
Additional water supplies to upper floors33
Number of premises disinfected1,999
Houses supplied with dis-infectants1,154Keeping of animals in unfit state discontinued23
Overcrowding abated6Smoke observations86
Premises improved, cleansed and repaired2,668Certificates of disinfection granted3,086
Drains tested By smoke501Houses inspected and certi-ficates granted (Sec. 48)21
Do. water1,179
Drains cleansed and repaired255Proceedings ordered by Council and Health Committee3,347
Drains relaid101
Frontage drains constructed or re-constructed26Summonses issued85
Magisterial Orders obtained and enforced26
Soil pipes and drains ventilated152
Sink and rain-water pipes disconnected or repaired499Factories, Workshops, &c., inspections5,611
Water Closets cleansed and repaired479Sanitary conveniences pro-vided or improvements effected in Factories and Workshops (Sec. 38)46
Cesspools abolished
Mews and Stables drained and paved-
Underground sleeping rooms: Use discontinued-
Yards and forecourts paved and repaired324
Defects remedied
Accumulations of manure and other obnoxious matter re-moved or proper receptacles provided6Gipsy van inspections67
Drains laid to new houses and tenements21
Samples taken under the Sale of Food and Drugs Acts1,221
Miscellaneous1,715