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Sanitary Circumstances.
SANITARY INSPECTION OF THE BOROUGH.
Summary of Sanitary Operations for the Year 1936.
(Public Health (London) Act, 1936, &c.)
Complaints received and
attended to
4,074
Water closets cleansed and
repaired
736
Number of house inspections
39,061
Cesspools abolished
—
House to house inspections
1,087
Dust receptacles provided
575
Houses let in separate tenements
on register
65
Urinals—inspections
187
Do. cleansed, altered,
repaired or water laid on
52
No. of inspections of do.
587
Shops Act inspections
1,374
Accumulations of manure and
other obnoxious matter removed
or proper receptacles
provided
2
Premises improved, cleansed
and repaired
2,727
Underground rooms :
Use discontinued
—
Keeping of animals in unfit
state discontinued
4
Defects remedied
—
Overcrowding abated
22
Gipsy van inspections
51
Leaky house-roofs and gutters
repaired
874
Factories, Workshops, &c.,
inspections
4,703
Yards and forecourts paved
and repaired
501
Sanitary conveniences provided
or improvements
effected in Factories and
Workshops (Sec. 106)
132
Drains laid to new houses and
tenements
312
Drains tested—Smoke tests
370
Bakehouse inspections
84
Do. Water tests
1,607
Bakehouse nuisances abated
15
Drains relaid
124
Smoke observations
13
Drains cleansed and repaired
293
Premises disinfected
2,722
Frontage drains constructed
or re-constructed
31
Houses supplied with disinfectants
201
Mews and stables drained and
paved
-
Certificates of disinfection
granted
4,812
Soil pipes and drains ventilated
213
Intimation notices
3,239
Sink and rain-water pipes
disconnected or repaired
513
Statutory Notices—
Sections 197 & 200
3,487
Houses inspected and certificates
granted (Sec. 95)
312
Fifth schedule, &c.
1,505
Proceedings ordered by Council
and Health Committee
3,256
Houses supplied with water
and fittings repaired
33
Summonses issued
33
Cisterns covered, cleansed and
repaired
116
Magisterial Orders obtained
and enforced
31
Additional water supplies to
upper floors
12
Samples taken under the Food
and Drugs (Adulteration) Act
1,200
Water closets provided,
supplied with water or
supply disconnected from
drinking water cisterns
26
Miscellaneous
3,577
Total sanitary operations
78,822