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Report of the Medical Officer of Health.
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
1,789, compared with 1,692 in 1909, 1,645 in 1908, and 1,836 in
1907.
I here was an increase in Putney, Streatham, Balham, Tooting,
Southfield, Fairfield and Springfield Wards, and a decrease in
Clapham North and South Wards.
Seven of these complaints were made to the London County
Council, and these were at once attended to.
The number of houses and premises inspected was 29,931, an
increase of 3,096 compared with 1909, and of 5,039 compared with
1908.
There was an increase in the number of houses and premises
inspected in Clapham North and South, Putney, Streatham,
Balham, Tooting, Southfield and Springfield Wards, and a
decrease in Fairfield Ward.
The total number of house-to-house inspections made was
6,276, compared with 7,007 in 1909, 5,575 in 1908, 5,718 in 1907,
5,686 in 1906, and 6,290 in 1905. There has been an increase in
the number of house-to-house inspections in Putney, Tooting, and
Southfield Wards, and a decrease in Clapham North and South,
Streatham, Balham, Fairfield, and Springfield Wards.
In Tooting alone the number increased from 226 in 1908 and
769 in 1909, to 850 in 1910, and in Putney from 649 in 1909 to
806 in 1910.