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Wandsworth 1910

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

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160 Report of the Medical Officer of Health.

TABLE LXXII.

Summary of Sanitary Operations in the Borough during the Year 1910.

Clapham.Putney.StreathamTooting.Wandsworth.Whole Borough.
North Ward.South Ward.Streatham Ward.Balham Ward.South field Ward.Fairfield Ward.Spring field Ward.
Number of complaints received and attended to27314571273236276206842251789
Number of houses and premises inspected31562438288134113613437139411858426229931
Number of house - to - house inspections9596018065307698501142495706276
Number of preliminary notices served975685624120011431142142837712928866
Ditto complied with95972360097911291050126837512788361
Number of statutory notices served11442191112588298512631038
Ditto complied with965313110242798350209935
Notices served for periodical removal of manure...4...33442828
Number of houses and premises re-inspected22011561160538452813306826651119261521492
Number of rooms disinfected after infectious diseases2331572502493154481591182372166
Bedding stoved10893991701781761441321301230
Overcrowding abated34331513141460129
Rooms cleansed and repaired654509287705116370064728510606010
Staircases cleansed and repaired125946419229314394452161266
Drains cleansed and repaired801598114117419111952871084
Traps fixed to drains561174351880919...338
Bath, lavatory and sink wastes altered to discharge outside over gullies or repaired12020407440162863302
Rain water pipes disconnected from drains...2...59125141764
Water closets cleansed and repaired215226168163384201294984002149
Water closets, separate supply of water laid on to.........23140.........64
Accumulations of manure, &c., removed413746626821241844361
Urinals cleansed, repaired or water laid on to9572621014560
Cesspools abolished......2...............13
Ashpits provided or repaired1377224127183136176441611060
Dust complaints received363041574214472643336
Stable and stable yards drained, paved or cleansed2017410118941497
Yards drained, paved or cleansed12911074174182201215702821437
Unwholesome or dilapidated houses cleansed or repaired132241063738
Leaky roofs and gutters repaired14716213219790105121702011225
Damp courses inserted3621118444717522153634
Damp conditions remedied9923732706214549122871120
Houses re-supplied with water741813127961086
Water cisterns cleansed, covered or repaired5918647635952582656606
Animals kept so as to be a nuisance234162112222434138
Smoke nuisances reported11314...2922768
Soil pipes repaired82010241957555153
Unclassified nuisances147115632232541892815746