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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 1930
[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 1930.
| Total Sanitary Operations | 71,330 | Leaky house-roofs and gutters repaired | 1,122 |
| Number of house inspections | 37,723 | ||
| House to house inspections | 1,052 | Houses supplied with water and fittings repaired | 93 |
| Bakehouse inspections | 246 | ||
| Bakehouse nuisances abated | 28 | Houses let in separate tene-ments on register | 62 |
| Urinals—inspections | 182 | ||
| Do. altered, repaired or water laid on | 28 | No. of inspections of do. | 353 |
| Intimations served under Sec.3 | 3,588 | Water closets provided, supplied with water or supply disconnected from drinking water cisterns | 75 |
| Notices served under Sec.4,&c. | 1,398 | ||
| Notices served under Secs. 62 & 65 | 4,368 | ||
| Complaints received and attended to | 4,078 | Cisterns covered, cleansed and repaired | 98 |
| Number of premises disinfected | 2,335 | Additional water supplies to upper floors | 22 |
| Houses supplied with dis-infectants | 591 | Keeping of animals in unfit state discontinued | 25 |
| Overcrowding abated | 37 | Smoke observations | 7 |
| Premises improved, cleansed and repaired | 3,240 | Certificates of disinfection granted | 5,168 |
| Drains tested By smoke | 599 | Houses inspected and certi-ficates granted (Sec. 48) | 25 |
| Do. „ water | 1,547 | ||
| Drains cleansed and repaired | 380 | Proceedings ordered by Council and Health Committee | 3,635 |
| Drains relaid | 134 | ||
| Frontage drains constructed or re-constructed | 45 | Summonses issued | 39 |
| Magisterial Orders obtained and enforced | 19 | ||
| Soil pipes and drains ventilated | 86 | Factories, Workshops, &c., inspections | 3,944 |
| Sink and rain-water pipes disconnected or repaired | 291 | ||
| Water closets cleansed and repaired | 740 | Sanitary conveniences pro vided or improvements effected in Factories and Workshops (Sec. 38) | 107 |
| Cesspools abolished | — | ||
| Mews and stables drained and paved | - | Underground sleeping rooms: | |
| Yards and forecourts paved and repaired | 370 | Use discontinued | 10 |
| Defects remedied | 8 | ||
| Accumulations of manure and other obnoxious matter re-moved or proper receptacles provided | 17 | Gipsy van inspections | 74 |
| Drains laid to new houses and tenements | 25 | ||
| Samples taken under the Food and Drugs Adulteration Act | 1,200 | ||
| Dust receptacles provided | 892 | Miscellaneous | 1,705 |