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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 1935
[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 1935.
| Complaints received and attended to | 4,266 | Water closets cleansed and repaired | 748 |
| Number of house inspections | 35,103 | Cesspools abolished | — |
| House to house inspections | 1,021 | Dust receptacles provided | 705 |
| Houses let in separate tenements on register | 66 | Urinals—inspections | 168 |
| No. of inspections of do. | 843 | Do. altered, repaired or water laid on | 46 |
| Shops Act inspections | 2,043 | Accumulations of manure and other obnoxious matter removed or proper receptacles provided | 7 |
| Premises improved, cleansed and repaired | 2,510 | Keeping of animals in unfit state discontinued | 17 |
| Underground sleeping rooms : | Gipsy van inspections | 122 | |
| Use discontinued | 2 | Factories, Workshops, &c., inspections. | 4,644 |
| Defects remedied | — | Sanitary conveniences provided or improvements effected in Factories and Workshops (Sec. 38) | 123 |
| Overcrowding abated | 18 | Bakehouse inspections | 74 |
| Leaky house-roofs and gutters repaired | 848 | Bakehouse nuisances abated | 17 |
| Yards and forecourts paved and repaired | 425 | Smoke observations | 20 |
| Drains laid to new houses and tenements | 73 | Premises disinfected | 2,062 |
| Drains tested—Smoke tests | 400 | Houses supplied with disinfectants | 269 |
| Do. Water tests | 1,457 | Certificates of disinfection granted | 3,525 |
| Drains relaid | 113 | Intimation notices (Sec. 3) | 3,535 |
| Drains cleansed and repaired | 398 | Notices under Sec. 4, &c. | 1,482 |
| Frontage drains constructed or re-constructed | 45 | Notices under Secs. 62 & 65 | 1,465 |
| Mews and stables drained and paved | 2 | Proceedings ordered by Council and Health Committee | 3,554 |
| Soil pipes and drains ventilated | 196 | Summonses issued | 23 |
| Sink and rain-water pipes disconnected or repaired | 437 | Magisterial Orders obtained and enforced | 18 |
| Houses inspected and certificates granted (Sec. 48) | 73 | Samples taken under the Food and Drugs (Adulteration) Act | 1,200 |
| Houses supplied with water and fittings repaired | 52 | Miscellaneous | 2,455 |
| Cisterns covered, cleansed and repaired | 134 | Total sanitary operation | 70,314 |
| Additional water supplies to upper floors | 20 | ||
| Water closets provided, supplied with water or supply disconnected from drinking water cisterns | 31 | ||