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Wandsworth 1882

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Wandsworth District, The Board of Works (Clapham, Putney, Streatham, Tooting & Wandsworth)]

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52
Overcrowding abated 7
Pig nuisances removed 40
Obstructions on footpath removed (building materials,&c,) 9
Orders of the Board obtained 56
Summonses 24
Dangerous steps or coal plates altered 8
Urinals cleansed 5
Sweeping trade refuse in street (abated) 13
Destroyed, 8 rabbits and 1 hare
It is by the immediate attention given to all complaints
and the systematic supervision under which the
sub-district is placed that we are enabled to keep it in as
good a sanitary state as possible and so secure to the
persons who reside in it those conditions which are
most favourable to their welfare.
In concluding this report I have to express my
continued satisfaction at the way in which Mr. Richards,
Inspector of Nuisances, performs his duties, and the
great assistance he is always ready to render. It is
much to his credit that he has obtained his certificate
from the Sanitary Institution of Great Britain, qualifying
him in Sanitary Science.
JOSEPH OAKMAN,
Medical Officer of Health for West Battertea.