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Report of the Medical Officer of Health.
some legal difficulty as to the ownership and responsibility.
(c) Simrose Court, Wandsworth, has been repaved by
the owners and the houses in the Court rebuilt.
Other passages and mews have been inspected by myself
and by the Sanitary Inspectors and the necessary
notices served, all of which were forthwith complied with.
In addition to the above special inspections and the routine
inspections of Bakehouses, Slaughterhouses, and Cowsheds, 205
inspections were made of other premises, chiefly previous to the
service of statutory notices.
My attendance was necessary at the Police Court on nine, at
the High Court on two, at the County Court on two, and at the
Licensing Sessions on two occasions during the year.
Revenue Act.
During the year 10 certificates were granted under the above
Act and two refused.
The certificates granted referred to 160 houses, or 246
separate tenements, and the two refused to nine houses, or 18
tenements.
Sanitary Operations.
The Table of Sanitary operations shows in detail the amount
-and nature of the work carried out by the Sanftary Inspectors
during the year.
The number of complaints received and attended to was
1,595, compared with 1,357 in 1905, and 1,491 in 1904. There
was an increase in both Wards in Clapham, a slight increase in
Putney, a decrease in Streatham, an increase in Balham, an increase
in Tooting, an increase in Southfield, and a decrease in
Fairfield and Springfield Wards, compared with the previous year.
The number of houses and premises inspected was 24,458,
-compared with 22,383 in 1905, and 17,999 in 1904.