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Report of the Medical Officer of Health.
The number of cases of overcrowding dealt with during the
year was 91, compared with i2q in iqio, 131 in iqoq, 158 in 1908,
87 in 1907, 100 in iqo6, and 92 in 1905. Five of these were in
Clapham, eight in Putney, 19 in Streatham, six in Tooting, and
53 in Wandsworth.
The cases of overcrowding in Clapham were in Crichton Street,
St. Andrew's Street, Midmoor Road, and Park Place ; in Putney,
in Quill Lane, Sefton Street, Isabella Place, The Piatt, Modder
Place, Mascotte Road, and March's Place ; in Streatham, in Larch
Road, Zennor Road, Chestnut Grove, Wimbledon Road, Upper
Tooting Road, Graveney Road, Besley Street, Westcote Road,
Mill Lane, and Sulina Road ; in Tooting, in Tooting Grove, Ivellino
Street, Gassiott Road, and Sellincourt Road : and in Wandsworth,
in Bendon Valley, Lydden Road, Wandley Street, Abovne Road,
Beechcroft Road, Thornsett Road, Groton Road, Garratt Lane,
Warple Way, and Jews Row.
Nearly all these were cases of domestic overcrowding and were
remedied without difficulty by re-arrangement of the sleeping
accommodation.
831 ashpits were provided or repaired, compared with 1,060
in 1910, 1,292 in 1909, and 329 complaints with reference to the
non-removal of house refuse (60 from Clapham, 41 from Putney,
xoo from Streatham, 15 from Tooting, and 113 from Wandsworth),
were received during the year. These complaints were, as in previous
years, attended to by the Dusting Inspectors.
1,105 yards in connection with dwelling-houses, and 123 in
connection with stables, were paved, drained, or cleansed, compared
with 1,437 and 97 in 1910.
5,026 rooms and 936 staircases and passages were cleansed or
repaired, compared with 6,010 rooms and 1,266 staircases and
passages in 1910.