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Report of the Medical Officer of Health.
and as this might possibly cause some damage to the property
the attention of the owner of the land was called to the matter
by that Authority, as also the nuisance caused by some of the
water flooding a factory in the Wimbledon district.
(2)—Special inspections were also made of several new roads in
consequence of complaints by residents in these roads. The
two principally complained of were part of Ellison Road and
Downton Avenue, both in the sub-district of Streatham. With
regard to the former the owner of the road carried out some
repairs which abated the nuisance to a certain extent, and in
the latter the road has been apportioned and will be dealt
with by the Borough Council during the current year.
(3)—Special inspections were made during the year of all the
premises in the Borough where pigs were kept, and in one
case where these animals were kept within forty yards of the
street, the attention of the owner was called to the matter
and the sties were removed and new sties built which complied
with the statute.
With regard to the other premises, which are chiefly in
the Osiers, and the vacant land in Merton Road, Wandsworth,
it was necessary in a few cases to serve notices for the repair
of paving to the sties, and these notices were all satisfactorily
complied with.
(4)—At the request of the Home Secretary I superintended the
exhumation and reburial of bodies from the Defoe Chapel,
Tooting, as the premises were to be occupied for business purposes.
In all, the remains of 150 bodies were found and these
were all removed and reburied at the Streatham Park Cemetery
to my satisfaction and under my personal supervision.
(5)—As in previous years, special inspections were made of several
localities in consequence of complaints of smells from road
gullies and sewer ventilators.
The number of complaints was much less than in the
previous year, especially in Streatham and Wandsworth; this
having been due to the fact that the climatic conditions were
unfavourable.