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Report of the Medical Officer of Health. 143
A letter was also received from the Thames Conservancy
stating that the Conservators had decided to serve a notice
under the provisions of the Thames Conservancy Act, 1894,
requiring the discontinuance of the pollution of the River, and
that such notice had been served.
The Council has instructed me to take further samples
during the present year.
In addition to the above special inspections, and the routine
inspections of bakehouses, slaughterhouses, cowsheds, and offensive
trade premises, 360 inspections were made of other premises,
chiefly previous to the service of statutory notices.
My attendance was necessary at the Police Court on 13, and
at the Licensing Sessions on two occasions during the year.
Revenue Act.
During the year nine certificates were granted under the
above Act and four refused.
The certificates granted referred to 54 houses or 121 separate
tenements, and the four refused to 10 houses or 22 tenements.
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 1,836,
compared with 1,595 in 1906, and 1,357 in 1905. There was again
an increase in both wards in Clapham, Putney, Streatham, and
Southfield Ward, Wandsworth, and a decrease in Balham, Tooting,
Springfield and Fairfield Wards, Wandsworth.
13 of these complaints were made to the London County
Council, and these were all at once attended to.