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duty it is to enforce all the necessary requirements of
sanitation, will become manifest by a perusal of the column
relating to Clapham in Table VI., Appendix, in which it
is shown that as many as 2000 houses and premises have
undergone inspection during the past year, that very many
unwholesome and dilapidated houses have been cleansed
or repaired, pig nuisances abated, accumulations of offal,
manure, &c., removed, and many other wholesome and
necessary sanitary proceedings carried out.
As usual, all the Cow and Slaughter-houses within the
Sub-district were carefully inspected and supervised, and,
after due investigation into their sanitary requirements,
were all recommended for renewal of licenses. I am
pleased to state I this year saw no grounds for objecting
to any such license : and I am equally pleased to report
that during the entire year nothing arose in the execution
of the orders and recommendations of the District Board
or of its committees, to require magisterial interference or
investigation.
If I venture to add anything to the recommendations
contained in my previous Reports, it will be to urge
particular attention being paid to the water supply of the
Sub-district, which is still defective both in quantity and
quality ; and which, in my humble opinion, requires reforming
more than any other sanitary matter, with which the
authorities are expected to deal; and here I must repeat
my already expressed hopes, that as a basis for future
legislation, the very excellent recommendations of the
Royal Commissioners, to transfer the water supply from
Joint Stock Companies into the hands of public bodies,
will soon be brought into operation.
JOHN MAC DONOGH,
Medical Officer of Health for Clapham.