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Sanitary Circumstances of the Area
Sanitary Inspectors.
Total number of inspections 12,979
Total number of reinspections 33,847
Total number of intimation notices served 6,285
Total number of nuisance notices served 2,348
Women Sanitary Inspectors.
Total number of visits and inspections (factories,
workplaces, infectious disease, etc.) 2,061
Total number of revisits, 342
Total number of intimation notices served 92
Total number of nuisance notices served 6
Workshops in which defects were found 124
House owners found conditions more adverse than ever before
with rising costs of repairs, with property getting older and more
worn, and with rents remaining unchanged. More owners are
unable to finance repairs which are required by nuisance notices
and the Council are now facing what may well grow to expensive
proportions if, after the owner fails to comply with a Court order,
they step in and do the work, recouping themselves by collecting
the rent. There are now a number of houses where the rent is
collected one week for income tax, the next week for the rates
and some the third week for the repairs.
Scabies and Verminous Persons
Cleansing Centre.
At the end of the war the Council agreed, in principle, to adapt
the disused montuary at Wanless Road for use as a cleansing
station owing to the increased demand for facilities which had
been, and still are, met through the good will of the adjoining
Boroughs of Southwark and Battersea, whose premises are placed
at the disposal of Lambeth residents. The service at both is free
to the individual, the Lambeth Council defraying the expense.
A total of 351 persons were treated at the cleansing station and
given 487 treatments, compared with 630 persons treated in the
previous year.