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144 Report of the Medical Officer of Health.
Including the above house-to-house inspections, but excluding
the routine inspections of bakehouses, slaughterhouses, cowsheds,
and offensive trade premises, 1,046 inspections were made of
premises, chiefly previous to the service of statutory notices.
My attendance was necessary at the Police Court on 12
occasions during the year.
Revenue Act.
During the year 20 certificates were granted under the above
Act, two were deferred and three refused.
The certificates granted referred to 71 houses or 156 separate
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 1,645,
compared with 1,836 in 1907, 1,595 in 1906, and 1,357 in 1905.
There was an increase in Putney, Balham, Tooting, and Southfield
Wards, and a decrease in both Wards in Clapham, Streatham,
Springfield, and Fairfield Wards.
13 of these complaints were made to the London County
Council, and these were all at once attended to.
The number of houses and premises inspected was 24,892, an
increase of 662 compared with the previous year.
There was an increase in the number of houses and premises
inspected in Putney, Streatham, Southfield, Fairfield, and Springfield
Wards, and a decrease in Clapham North and South, Balham,
and Tooting Wards.