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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 1933
[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 1933.
| Total Sanitary Operations | 65,355 | Accumulations of manure and other obnoxious matter removed or proper receptacles provided | 6 |
| Number of house inspections | 33,862 | ||
| House to house inspections | 589 | ||
| Bakehouse inspections | 200 | ||
| Bakehouse nuisances abated | 70 | Dust receptacles provided | 736 |
| Urinals—inspections | 84 | Leaky house-roofs and gutters repaired | 697 |
| Do. altered, repaired or water laid on | 30 | ||
| Houses supplied with water and fittings repaired | 86 | ||
| Intimation notices (Sec. 3) | 3,239 | ||
| Notices served under Sec.4, Ac. | 1,188 | Houses let in separate tenements on register | 66 |
| Notices served under Secs. 62 & 65 | 2,413 | ||
| No. of inspections of do. | 591 | ||
| Complaints received and attended to | 3,865 | Water closets provided, supplied with water or supply disconnected from drinking water cisterns | 27 |
| Premises disinfected | 2,471 | ||
| Houses supplied with disinfectants | 445 | ||
| Cisterns covered, cleansed and repaired | 150 | ||
| Certificates of disinfection granted | 5,011 | ||
| Additional water supplies to upper floors | 14 | ||
| Overcrowding abated | 30 | ||
| Premises improved, cleansed and repaired | 2,281 | Keeping of animals in unfit state discontinued | 9 |
| Drains tested By smoke | 651 | Smoke observations | 13 |
| Do. water | 1,696 | Proceedings ordered by Council and Health Committee | 3,250 |
| Drains cleansed and repaired | 404 | ||
| Drains relaid | 136 | Summonses issued | 29 |
| Drains laid to new houses and tenements | 188 | Magisterial Orders obtained and enforced | 14 |
| Houses inspected and certificates granted (Sec. 48) | 188 | Factories, Workshops, &c., inspections | 3,989 |
| Frontage drains constructed or re-constructed | 34 | Sanitary conveniences provided or improvements effected in Factories and Workshops (Sec. 38) | 52 |
| Soil pipes and drains ventilated | 177 | ||
| Sink and rain-water pipes disconnected or repaired | 220 | ||
| Underground sleeping rooms: Use discontinued | 1 | ||
| Water closets cleansed and repaired | 629 | ||
| Defects remedied | 1 | ||
| Cesspools abolished | 2 | Gipsy van inspections | 41 |
| Mews and stables drained and paved | 4 | Samples taken under the Food and Drugs (Adulteration) Act | 1,200 |
| Yards and forecourts paved and repaired | 341 | Miscellaneous | 2,021 |