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Wandsworth 1892

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

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number of houses and buildings comprised in the foregoing
inspections were: In Claplxam, 120; Putney, 100;
Streatham, 528; Tooting, 20; Wandsworth, 437;
total, 1,271.
NUISANCES.
In the parish of Clapham 4,215 houses and premises
have been inspected and 2,065 notices for the abatement
of nuisances have been served and complied with; 351
houses have been disinfected alter infectious disease had
occurred there.
In the parish of Putney 3/139 bouses and premises
have been inspected. Six hundred and ninety-seven
intimation and 79 statutory notices have been served to
remedy sanitary defects. Fifty-eight rooms have been
fumigated after the occurrence of infectious diseases.
In the parish of Streatham 3,533 inspections of
houses and business premises have been made during
the year and the results duly recorded and acted upon.
The slaughter houses, cow houses, and bake houses have
also been inspected and reported upon to the Sanitary
Committee, and all the necessary improvements, cleansing,
&c., have been carried out. Seven hundred and thirtyeight
notices for the abatement of nuisances have been
served and attended to ; two hundred and seventy-nine
rooms in 217 houses have been fumigated, disinfected i,
and cleansed after infectious diseases; in 66 cases the
infected articles were properly stoved and returned to
their owners. The cost to the Board was about £G2.
In the parish of Tooting 133 houses and premises
have been inspected and 79 notices for the abatement of
nuisances have been served and complied with; 21
houses have been disinfected after infectious disease had
occurred there.
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