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Report of the Medical Officer of Health.
69
In Streatham special inspections were made in Calders Row,
Brixton Hill, as to general sanitary condition, and in Wellfield
Road owing to several cases of Diphtheria having occurred there.
In this outbreak, chiefly due to a return case, the premises were
found to be unfit for human habitation, and the owner gave all
the tenants notice to leave. Shortly after the houses were
demolished and new buildings erected.
In Tooting special inspections were made by myself of
Salvador, Aldis Mews, Totterdown, Angel Court, as to general
sanitary condition, and also in Salvador with reference to the
outbreak of Diphtheria mentioned in this Report.
Special inspections have also been made of the bakehouses,
cowhouses, and slaughterhouses in the Borough for the purpose
of acquainting myself with the condition under which these are
carried on in the various sub-districts.
More detailed inspection of the underground bakehouses will
be necessary in view of the new provisions of the Factory and
Workshops Act, 1901, and these inspections will be carried out,
as opportunity arises, during the present year.
The Table of Sanitary Operations during the year does not
include all the work carried out by the Sanitary Inspectors during
the year, and more especially during the first half of the year.
Before the re-organisation of the Department the Sanitary
Inspectors carried out, besides the duties under the Public Health
(London) Act, 1891, other duties with reference to drains of new
houses, but in future years the Table will give a more complete
return of their work.
When this is taken into consideration the Table compares
very favourably with the amount of work done in former years.
The number of houses and premises inspected shows a
decrease of 3,073 compared with 1900. This decrease was general
in all the sub-districts, with the exception of Tooting, where the
number of premises inspected showed an increase from 522 to
1,021.