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Battersea 1931
[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 1931.
| Total Sanitary Operations | 72,740 | Leaky house-roofs and gutters repaired | 1,004 |
| Number of house inspections | 41,545 | ||
| House to house inspections | 2,909 | Houses supplied with water and fittings repaired | 95 |
| Bakehouse inspections | 248 | ||
| Bakehouse nuisances abated | 30 | Houses let in separate tenements on register | 62 |
| Urinals-inspections | 166 | ||
| Do. altered, repaired or water laid on | 56 | No. of inspections of do. | 258 |
| Water closets provided, supplied with water or supply disconnected from drinking water cisterns | 57 | ||
| Intimations served under Sec. 3 | 3,653 | ||
| Notices served under Sec. 4, &c. | 1,231 | ||
| Notices served under Secs. 62 & 65 | 1,505 | ||
| Cisterns covered, cleansed and repaired | 150 | ||
| Complaints received and attended to | 3,926 | ||
| Additional water supplies to upper floors | 23 | ||
| Number of premises disinfected | 1,912 | ||
| Houses supplied with disinfectants | 436 | Keeping of animals in unfit state discontinued | 22 |
| Overcrowding abated | 60 | Smoke observations | 24 |
| Premises improved, cleansed and repaired | 2,899 | Certificates of disinfection granted | 2,546 |
| Drains tested By smoke | 586 | Houses inspected and certificates granted (Sec. 48) | 17 |
| Do. water | 2,052 | ||
| Drains cleansed and repaired | 441 | Proceedings ordered by Council and Health Committee | 3,693 |
| Drains relaid | 182 | ||
| Frontage drains constructed or re-constructed | 40 | Summonses issued | 83 |
| Magisterial Orders obtained and enforced | 20 | ||
| Soil pipes and drains ventilated | 121 | ||
| Sink and rain-water pipes disconnected or repaired | 336 | Factories, Workshops, &c., inspections | 3,834 |
| Water closets cleansed and repaired | 713 | Sanitary conveniences provided or improvements effected in Factories and Workshops (Sec. 38) | 75 |
| Cesspools abolished | - | ||
| Mews and stables drained and paved | - | ||
| Underground sleeping rooms : | |||
| Yards and forecourts paved and repaired | 403 | Use discontinued | 2 |
| Defects remedied | 3 | ||
| Accumulations of manure and other obnoxious matter removed or proper receptacles provided | 4 | Gipsy van inspections | 57 |
| Drains laid to new houses and tenements | 17 | ||
| Samples taken under the Food and Drugs Adulteration Act | 1,200 | ||
| Dust receptacles provided | 952 | ||
| Miscellaneous | 2,295 |