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124 Report of the Medical Officer of Health.
(6.) A Sub-Committee also inspected a number of houses in
Garratt Lane known in the past as Jubilee Cottages, but
now numbered in Garratt Lane.
These properties have for many years been inspected
by the Sanitary Inspector and myself yearly, but they have
recently become so structurally defective that it was necessary
to take steps to close some of them. Notices were
served and as a result four of them were closed by the
owners, and in the others the necessary repairs are being
gradually done.
(7.) Special inspections were made during the summer months
of several localities, chiefly in Streatham, Balham, Southfields,
Wandsworth, Totterdown, Tooting, and various
parts of Putney, in consequence of complaints of residents
in these localities as to smell from sewer ventilators.
These complaints were more numerous in 1906, as a
result of the continued dry weather, and a consequent
absence of the natural flushing of the gullies, drains, and
main sewers.
In all 159 complaints were received, from Clapham
North Ward four, Clapham South Ward 19, Putney 17,
Balham 28, Streatham 29, Tooting 30, Southfield 29, Fairfield
five, and Springfield eight.
All these complaints were forwarded to the Surveyors
who periodically reported that the necessary flushing and
cleansing or other work had been done.
(8.) With regard to the mews and passages mentioned in previous
Reports I have made several inspections of these during
the year.
(a) The mews at rear of houses in York Road,
worth, has been paved by the owners, and the place
is now in a satisfactory condition.
(b) The passage in the rear of Stanthorpe Road,
ham, has been kept cleansed by the owners, but
nothing structural has been carried out owing to