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Wandsworth 1891

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

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(a) "Prescribing the times for the removal of offensive matter
through the streets, and as to the carriages, &c., used
therefor (section 16).
(b) "As to closing cesspools, &c., removal of refuse, and duties
of occupiers of houses as to removal of refuse (section
16).
(c) "Water closets, earth closets, privies, ashpits, cesspools, &c.
(section 39).
"The County Council in making these bye-laws are to consider
any representations made by the sanitary
authority, and are to send a copy of the proposed
bye-laws to such authority not less than two months
before applying to the Local Government Board for
the confirmation thereof.
26.—"Section 96 of the Act authorises the Sanitary Authority to
make general regulations or special orders in particular cases dispensing
with or modifying the new requirements of the Act with regard to
underground dwellings. Your Committee are of opinion that no such
general regulations should at present be made by the Board, but that
any applications in the matter that may be made by owners should be
considered separately on their merits.
27.—"Your Committee recommend that at the first meeting of the
Board after the 1st January next, the several Local Committees be
appointed Committees for the purposes of the Act in their respective
parishes under the provisions of section 99, and that written authority
under seccion 115 to the Sanitary Inspectors to enter premisos for the
purposes of the Act be sealed with the seal of the Board.
28.—"Your Committee have settled the necessary forms of notioe
under the provisions of the Act, which have been prepared by the
Clerk, and recommend that the same be printed in readiness for
use as soon as the Act cornea into operation."
15 th October, 1891.
An additional Sanitary Inspector has been appointed
in each of the parishes of Claphain, Streatham, and
Wandsworth.
Vaccination. Table X. shews the number of children
vaccinated in the district and each sub-district. The
number of births registered in the previous year is