Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Battersea Borough]
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Number of Baths, &c.
Year.
Adults.
Children.
*Expenditure
*Amount
Contributed.
Verminous
and Scabies.
Verminous
and Scabies.
£
]
1906-1915
10,443
6,430
1,037
303
1916-1925
3,269
39,117
5,007
3,155
1926
229
4,371
916
425
1927
256
4,360
960
418
1928
221
3,769
863
400
1929
278
4,335
927
400
1930
263
3,901
856
400
1931
283
3,898
875
400
1932
248
3,703
786
400
1933
223
3,385
821
400
1934
209
3,780
730
401
1935
194
3,791
787
401
1936
265
4,524
723
403
16,381
89,364
£15,288
£7,906
* Financial year ending 31st March. Other columns, calendar year.
Disinfecting Department.
Summary of work carried out by the Disinfecting Department
during 1936.
Total premises disinfected 2,722
Rooms disinfected 2,964
Staircases disinfected 93
Schools disinfected 5
Number of articles laundered 9,287
„ „ destroyed 636
„ verminous, etc., persons (including
4,496 school children) 4,789
„ infectious disease contacts478
„ library books collected 420
Articles. No. Weight.
Tons. cwts. qrs. lbs.
Bedding, &c., disinfected 37,363 96 5 2 0
Ditto (articles from shelters
and Cleansing Station,
&c.) 9,479 (not weighed)
Bedding, &c., lent 1,673 5 3 2 4
Verminous clothing, &c. 22,210 4 19 0 17
Articles from Welfare
Centres 1,680 (not weighed)
Total ... 72,405 106 8 0 21
Coroner's Court and Mortuary.
Details as to the number of inquests held at the Coroner's
Court, and bodies received into the Mortuary during 1936 are set
out in the following table :—