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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Sanitary Circumstances.
The following table sets out in summarised form the details
of the main work of the Department in relation to sanitation : —
Summary of Main Operations for the Year 1950, Sanitary Operations.
Inspections— | Frontage drains constructed or reconstructed | 8 | |
New houses | 93 | ||
House-to-house | – | ||
Houses let in separate tenements | – | New houses—certificates issued re water supply | 93 |
Houses—following complaints | 5,642 | Houses supplied with water and fittings repaired | 113 |
Houses—following infectious disease | 1,141 | Additional water supplies to tenement houses | 5 |
Gipsy vans | – | ||
Common Lodging Houses | – | Water closets provided, supplied with water, or supply disconnected from drinking water cisterns | 10 |
Public urinals and chalets | 75 | ||
Re-inspections | 24,819 | ||
Other visits | 2,911 | Water closets and urinals cleansed and repaired | 717 |
Notices served— | |||
Intimations | 3,383 | Drinking water cisterns cleansed and repaired | 146 |
Statutory (Sec. 197 and 200) | 241 | Rain-water and waste pipes disconnected or repaired | 456 |
Statutory (Fifth Schedule) | 2,075 | ||
Summonses issued | 277 | Soil pipes and drains ventilated | 56 |
Magisterial Orders obtained | 88 | Defective roofs and gutters repaired | 1,697 |
Drains laid to new houses | 93 | Dustbins provided | 83 |
Drains relaid (wholly or partly) | 34 | Yards paved or repaired Premises disinfected | 312 |
1,121 | |||
Drains cleansed and repaired | 323 | Persons cleansed (including 2,238 children) | 2,464 |
Drains tested (smoke) | 120 | Articles disinfected | 80,614 |
Found defective | 61 | Rat repression— | |
Drains tested (water) | 700 | Premises inspected | 282 |
Drainage plans received | 107 | Inspections | 2,904 |
Protection of Food Supply. | |||
Inspections— | Inspections—contd. | ||
Butchers' and other | Dairies and milk shops | 288 | |
food shops | 1,126 | Ice cream premises | 221 |
Slaughterhouses | 35 | Restaurant kitchens | 508 |
Fish shops | 252 | Samples taken | 1,200 |
Food storage premises | 125 | Summonses issued | 7 |
Factories, Workshops and Shops. | |||
Inspections— | Inspections—contd. | ||
Shops | 17 | Outworkers | 1,095 |
do. (Pharmacy Act) | 25 | Smoke observations | 165 |
Factories | 1,898 | Intimation notices served | 47 |