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Report of the Medical Officer of Health.
The drains of these schools will be made watertight; and with
regard to the Macaulay Road School, Clapham, which also was
inspected, the managers have under consideration a scheme for total
reconstruction of the school premises, including all the sanitaryarrangements.
Inspections were also made of St. Mary's School, Balham;
Commercial School; St. Paul's, Heath Road ; and the Roman Catholic
Schools (boys and girls), Clapham; chiefly with reference to the
sanitary arrangements. In all these the water closets, although not of
a modern pattern, were in a fairly satisfactory condition. At St. Mary's,
Balham, the drains and sanitary conveniences are to be reconstructed.
3. Special inspections were made of the following premises in
Putney for the purpose of giving evidence at the Local Government
Board inquiry as to the site of a new London County Council school. The
site inspected consisted of several old properties, known as Bigg's Row,
Seymour Row, Isabella Place, Smith's Cottages, Cox's Buildings, the
Old School House, Alpha Place, Kempsell Cottages, Marsh's Place, and
Nos. 95-105, Lower Richmond Road.
In all, 68 houses were inspected, occupied by 314 persons, 152
under 10 years, and 162 over 10 years of age.
The majority of the houses are old, but are kept in quite a satisfactory
sanitary condition.
4. During the year my attention was called by the Inspectors
and also by ratepayers to the insanitary condition of various mews and
passages in the rear of certain premises, and special inspections were
made for the purpose of ascertaining if such nuisances could be dealt
with under the Public Health (London) Act, 1891, or the Metropolis
Management Act. The following places were inspected:—
(а) Mews in Tankerville Road, Streatham.
(б) Passageway from Fallsbrook Road, Streatham.
(c) Mews at rear of Furzedown Parade, Streatham.
(d) Mews in Westcote Road, in the rear of shops in
Mitcham Lane.
(e) Mews at rear of houses in York Road, entering from
houses in Eltringham Street, Wandsworth.
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