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80 Report of the Medical Officer of Health.
The number of cases in which water supply has been laid on
to water-closets was only 88, compared with 310 in 1900. The
diminution in number is what might be expected, as in every
instance when a water supply to a water-closet is found to be from
the same cistern that supplies the drinking water notice is at once
served for abatement of the nuisance. Occasional cases will be
discovered from time to time, but this nuisance now will only be
occasional, and not, as in former years, fairly common.
35 urinals were cleansed or repaired during the year, these
urinals being principally in connection with public-houses. A
general inspection of all these has been made, and, in some cases,
it will only be by constant supervision that nuisances will be
prevented.
Public urinal accommodation in an area of the size of this
Borough is a serious question, and although there exists in some
parts urinals of the best construction and in most suitable localities,
yet there is need for an increase of this accommodation.
The district has, however, grown so rapidly, and new centres of
population have risen up so quickly, that it was impossible to
keep pace with the increase in providing such conveniences.
155 accumulations of manure were removed ; and 45 notices:
1 in Clapham, 29 in Streatham, 12 in Tooting, and 3 in Wandsworth,
were served under the Bye-laws for the removal to be
carried out even' 48 hours.
The questions of manure removal and disposal are yearly
becoming more serious, and the law with reference to removal
must be rigidly enforced if the nuisance is to be done away with.
There can be no doubt that it is becoming every year more
difficult for the small tradesman to get rid of his manure regularly
and in a satisfactory manner. If this is so in this Borough, which
is on the outskirts of the Metropolis, it must be a much more
serious question in the central districts of the Metropolis.
In this Borough there are several large omnibus stables, but
very few complaints have been received with regard to these,
as they all belong to large companies and the removal of manure