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Wandsworth 1906

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Wandsworth, Metropolitan Borough]

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Report of the Medical Officer of Health.

Table: TABLE LVIII.Summary of Sanitary Operations in the Borough during the Year 1906.

TABLE LVIII.

Summary of Sanitary Operations in the Borough during the Year 1906.

Clapham.Putney.Streatham.Tooting.Wandsworth.Whole Borough.
North Ward.South Ward.Strea-tham Ward.Balham Ward.South field Ward.Fairfield Ward.Ward.
Number of complaints received and attended to24815538350211167205861351595
Number of houses and premises inspected28281739203634243130325620342699331224458
Number of house to house inspections9635938202207465405645796615686
Number of preliminary notices served6836906824831403105141411589367500
Ditto complied with609674680463136799536710888757118
Number of statutory notices served143953144241142461061961044
Ditto complied with1139454423513222102180927
Number of rooms disinfected after infectious diseases2532231433953404983062244122794
Bedding stoved165119841912512721921362591669
Overcrowding abated345472571728100
Rooms cleansed and repaired49152623531411387301376207634954
Staircases cleansed or repaired769048603302652368781038
Drains cleansed and repaired821051011672581866353921107
Traps fixed to drains276231115529164289
Bath, lavatory and sink wastes altered to discharge outside over gullies or repaired2133354752932032261
Rain water pipes disconnected from drains...2...3°5923031109
Water closets cleansed and repaired258177200154340149982702901936
Water closets, separate supply of water laid on to...1...561...1...14
Urinals cleansed, repaired or water laid on to639108...29754
Accumulations of manure, &c., removed121344216546131128253
Cesspools abolished......3..................3
Ashpits provided or repaired1697792173256155601091291219
Dust complaints received33299211649367247100574
Stables and stable yards drained, paved or cleansed312...1442332768
Yards drained, paved or cleansed6913210975184122222371441094
Unwholesome or dilapidated houses cleansed or repaired1...2551124...8680
Leaky roofs and gutters repaired76122192541141772866105934
Houses re-supplied with water41971413513773
Water cisterns cleansed, covered or repaired128160682820050131049'842
Animals kept so as to be a nuisance10677171213555i178
Smoke nuisances reported23737257524128
Soil pipes repaired710177123353018184
Unclassified nuisances1011771363797132799935893