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Battersea 1928
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Battersea Borough]
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Sanitary Circumstances.
SANITARY INSPECTION OF THE BOROUGH.
Summary of Sanitary Operations for the Year 1928.
| Total Sanitary Operations | 70,279 | Dust receptacles provided | 564 |
| Number of house inspections | 38,269 | Leaky house-roofs and gutters repaired | 925 |
| House to house inspections | 1,032 | ||
| Bakehouse inspections | 191 | Houses supplied with water and fittings repaired | 126 |
| Bakehouse nuisances abated | 51 | ||
| Urinals—inspections | 297 | Houses let in lodgings registered | 60 |
| Do. altered, repaired or water laid on | 27 | No. of inspections of do. | 1,035 |
| Water closets provided, supplied with water or supply disconnected from drinking water cisterns | 118 | ||
| Intimations served under Sec.3 | 3,712 | ||
| Notices served under Sec.4,&c. | 1,369 | ||
| Notices served under Sees. 62 & 65 | 6,323 | ||
| Cisterns covered, cleansed and repaired | 90 | ||
| Complaints received and attended to | 3,649 | ||
| Additional water supplies to upper floors | 14 | ||
| Number of premises disinfected | 2,628 | ||
| Houses supplied with disinfectants | 1,375 | Keeping of animals in unfit state discontinued | 11 |
| Overcrowding abated | 14 | Smoke observations | 15 |
| Premises improved, cleansed and repaired | 2,813 | Certificates of disinfection granted | 4,215 |
| Drains tested By smoke | 703 | Houses inspected and certificates granted (Sec. 48) | 31 |
| Do water | 1,393 | ||
| Drains cleansed and repaired | 316 | Proceedings ordered by Council and Health Committee | 3,721 |
| Drains relaid | 103 | ||
| Frontage drains constructed or re-constructed | 30 | Summonses issued | 47 |
| Magisterial Orders obtained and enforced | 33 | ||
| Soil pipes and drains ventilated | 110 | ||
| Sink and rain-water pipes disconnected or repaired | 356 | Factories, Workshops, &c., inspections | 2,944 |
| Water closets cleansed and repaired | 562 | Sanitary conveniences provided or improvements effected in Factories and Workshops (Sec. 38) | 42 |
| Cesspools abolished | — | ||
| Mews and stables drained and paved | |||
| Underground sleeping rooms: | |||
| Yards and forecourts paved and repaired | 297 | Use discontinued | — |
| Defects remedied | — | ||
| Accumulations of manure and other obnoxious matter removed or proper receptacles provided | 3 | Gipsy van inspections | 81 |
| Drains laid to new houses and tenements | 31 | ||
| Samples taken under the Sale of Food and Drugs Acts | 1,200 | ||
| Miscellaneous | 1,406 |