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Sanitary Circumstances.
SANITARY INSPECTION OF THE BOROUGH.
Summary of Sanitary Operations for the Year 1937.
(Public Health (London) Act, 1936, &c.)
Complaints attended to 3,906
Number of house inspections 35,893
House to house inspections 1,128
Houses let in separate tenements
on register 65
No. of inspections of do. 331
Shops Act inspections 43
Premises improved, cleansed
and repaired 2,863
Underground rooms :
Use discontinued 1
Defects remedied 8
Overcrowding abated 12
Leaky house-roofs and gutters
repaired 865
Yards and forecourts paved
and repaired 595
Drains laid to new houses and
tenements 200
Drains tested—Smoke tests 268
Do. Water tests 1,206
Drains relaid (wholly or
partly) 104
Drains cleansed and repaired 277
Frontage drains constructed
or re-constructed 25
Mews and stables drained and
paved 2
Soil pipes and drains ventilated 229
Sink and rain-water pipes
disconnected or repaired 607
Houses inspected and certificates
granted (Sec. 95) 200
Houses supplied with water
and fittings repaired 49
Cisterns covered, cleansed or
repaired 103
Additional water supplies to
tenement houses 25
Water closets provided,
supplied with water or
supply disconnected from
drinking water cisterns 28
Water closets cleansed and
repaired 894
Cesspools abolished —
Urinals—inspections 172
Do. cleansed, altered,
repaired or water laid on 50
Dust receptacles provided 528
Accumulations of manure and
other obnoxious matter removed
or proper receptacles
provided 5
Keeping of animals in unfit
state discontinued 7
Gipsy van inspections 90
Factories, workshops, &c.,
inspections 4,307
Sanitary conveniences provided
or improvements
effected in Factories and
Workshops (Sec. 106) 62
Bakehouse inspections 137
Bakehouse nuisances abated 26
Smoke observations 173
Premises disinfected 2,240
Houses supplied with disinfectants
134
Certificates of disinfection
granted 2,528
Intimation notices 3,297
Statutory Notices—
Sections 197 & 200 1,799
Fifth schedule, &c. 1,568
Proceedings ordered by Council
and Health Committee 3,320
Summonses issued 58
Magisterial Orders obtained
and enforced 40
Samples taken under the Food
and Drugs (Adulteration) Act 1,200
Miscellaneous 3,947
Total sanitary operations 70,375