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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 1950
[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 |