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Report of the Medical Officer of Health.
The total number of intimation notices served was 6,278,
compared with 8,866 in 1910, and 9,336 in 1909, and of statutory
notices 957, compared with 1,038 and 1,119.
The greatest number of intimation notices was served in
Clapham North and Springfield Wards, and the smallest number
in Southfield and Putney Wards. The greatest number of statutory
notices was served in Balham and Springfield Wards, and the
smallest number in Putney and Tooting Wards.
246 of the statutory notices, 13 in Clapham, two in Putney,
36 in Streatham, three in Tooting, and 192 in Wandsworth, served
in 1911, were not complied with at the close of the year.
54 of these notices were complied with in the beginning of
the current year, 15 were for nuisance in a passageway in which
Police Court proceedings are pending, 117 were for 50 premises in
Wandsworth, and the remainder are in hand or the premises are
empty.
In the 50 premises in Wandsworth for which 117 notices were
served, the work in some of the premises is in hand and the owner
intends to deal with the rest shortly. Summonses have been issued
for non-compliance with these notices, and at present as the work
is in hand the hearing of these summonses has been adjourned.
The number of statutory notices served include By-law
notices, 305 of which were served in respect of the following contraventiors
of the By-laws :—Yard paving I39> repairs to water
closets 49, repairs to flushing apparatus of water closets 29,
cleansing of water closet one, covers to cisterns 21, cleansing
cisterns 12, cleansing house and other contraventions of the Bylaws
as to houses let in lodgings 36, absence of cover to manure
receptacle one, failing to deposit manure in a proper receptacle 15,
absence of water closet accommodation to tents and vans one, and
offensive liquid running over pavement one.