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158 Report of the Medical Officer of Health.
The total number of intimation notices served was 7,613,
compared with 7,500 in 1906, and of statutory notices 1,106, compared
with 1,044.
The greatest number of intimation notices was served in
Balham and Springfield Wards, and the smallest number in Southfield
and Streatham Wards. The greatest number of statutory
notices was served in Balham and Springfield Wards, and the
smallest number in Putney and Southfield Wards.
Only 38 of the statutory notices served in 1907 were not
complied with. These were served in December and were complied
with in the early months of the current year.
The number of statutory notices served include By-law
notices, 391 of which were served in respect of the following contraventions
of the By-laws:—Yard paving 134, repairs to water
closets 69, repairs to flushing apparatus of water closets 64,
covers to cisterns 57, cleansing cisterns 31, cleansing house and
other contraventions of the By-laws as to houses let in lodgings
33, paving and draining stables, one, depositing offensive liquid
on street, one, and depositing house refuse within prohibited
distance, one.
The number of cases of overcrowding dealt with during the
year was 87, compared with 100 in 1906, and 92 in 1905. Five of
these were in Clapham, five in Putney, 19 in Streatham, eight in
Tooting and 50 in Wandsworth.
Of the 19 cases in Streatham, seven were in Hazelhurst, Foss
and Selkirk Roads, and in Wandsworth the cases were chiefly in
Pier Terrace, Jews' Row, Warple Way, Lydden Road, and
Wardley Street.
1,099 ashpits were provided or repaired, compared with 1,219
in 1906, and 1,128 in 1905, and 396 complaints with reference to
the non-removal of house refuse (43 from Clapham, 55 from
Putney, 161 from Streatham, 25 from Tooting, and 112 from
Wandsworth), were received during the year. These complaints
were as in previous years attended to by the Dusting Inspectors.