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Report of the Medical Officer of Health.
Terrace, Merton Road, Armoury Yard, and Dutch Yard, Wandsworth,
have been paved by the Council and the cost paid by the owners.
Triangle Place and the passage at 18, Old Town, Clapham, are
being dealt with, and will be completed during the current year.
With regard to Salvador, Tooting, part of this has been tar-paved
and part channelled and the roadway repaired by the Council, thus
effecting a decided improvement in its condition.
5. Special inspections were also made of the following streets as
to the general sanitary condition of the houses:—Lydden Grove and
Wardley Street, Wandsworth, and Pleasant Place, Nelson's Row,
White Square, and Lower Orchard Street, Clapham.
In addition to the above special inspections, 260 inspections were
made of other premises, chiefly previous to the service of statutory
notice.
My attendance at the Police Court was necessary on 14, and at the
High Court on two, occasions during the year.
Sanitary Operations.
The Table of Sanitary Operations shows in detail the amount and
nature of the work carried out by the Sanitary Inspectors during the
year.
The number of complaints received and attended to was 1,357,
compared with 1,491 in 1904. There was a considerable decrease in
the number of complaints from Clapham, and a slight decrease in the
number from Putney, Streatham and Tooting.
The number of houses and premises inspected during the year
was 22,383, compared with 17,999 in 1904 and 16,419 in 1903.
This increase was general in all the sub-districts, but was
greatest in Tooting, where the number of inspections shows an increase
from 1,145 to 2490 Some of this increase is due to the inspection of
premises after notification of births, and also to the increased number
of cases of infectious diseases dealt with.
6,290 house-to-house inspections were made during the year, compared
with 6,440 in 1904. The only sub-district in which there was
any increase in the number was Tooting, the other sub-districts each
showing a slight decrease.