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Report of the Medical Officer of Health.
Mortuaries.
The Mortuaries in Clapham, Streatham, Tooting and Wandsworth
have been visited several times during the year, and I am
able to report that the By-laws and Regulations have been carried
out in a satisfactory manner.
With reference to the Wandsworth Mortuary the Public
Health Committee have on several occasions had the question of
providing a new mortuary for Wandsworth before (hem, but so
far no decision as to the site has been arrived at.
The Morluary at Tooting has been closed, but a temporary
one has been provided pending the erection of a new one in Wandsworth
In Clapham, 30 bodies were removed to the Mortuary, compared
with 43 in 1911 ; in Streatham 39, compared with 55, and
in Wandsworth 117, of which 74 were from Wandsworth, 24 from
Putney, and 19 from Tooting—a total of 186 compared with 206
in 1911. In addition four bodies were removed to the temporary
Mortuary at Tooting.
No infectious cases were admitted to any of the Mortuaries
during the year.
GENERAL SANITARY WORK IN 1912.
The following list shows the special inspections made by me
during the year :—
(1)—Complaints were received from the Wimbledon Council with
reference to flooding of land at rear of Ravensbury Road,
Wandsworth, which was used as a skating pond in winter. In
company with the Medical Officer of Health for Wimbledon
I made an inspection of the pond in January, 1912.
As far as this Borough was concerned I could detect no
nuisance that could be dealt with under the Public Health
(London) Act, 1891. Some of the water was flowing from
the pond into land owned by the Wimbledon Corporation,