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Report of the Medical Officer of Health.
The total number of intimation notices served was 6,620,
compared with 6,278 in 1911, 8,866 in 1910 and 9,336 in 1909, and
of statutory notices 707, compared with 957, 1,038 and 1,119.
The greatest number of intimation notices was served in
Streatham, Balham 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 Clapham South Wards.
176 of the statutory notices, 17 in Clapham, 29 in Streatham,
two in Tooting, and 128 in Wandsworth, served in 1912, were not
complied with at the close of the year.
110 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 were unsuccessfully taken by the Council,
60 were for 35 premises in Wandsworth, and the remainder are in
hand, or the premises are empty.
In 35 premises in Wandsworth for which 60 notices were served,
the work in all the premises is in hand, and the whole of the work
will early in the current year be completed. These notices refer
chiefly to a number of houses in Point Pleasant, Wandsworth, and
the delay in non-compliance was due to change of ownership, and
also to the fact that the new owners caused the houses to be vacated
before proceeding with the works.
The number of statutory notices served include By-law
notices, 227 of which were served in respect of the following contraventions
of the By-laws:—Yard paving 97, repairs to water
closets 50, repairs to flushing apparatus of water closets 20, cleansing
of water closet one, covers to cisterns six, cleansing cisterns
three, cleansing house and other contraventions of the Bylaws
as to houses let in lodgihgs 36, absence of cover to manure
receptacle two, failing to deposit manure in a proper receptacle
seven, paving of stables one, paving of pigsties one, and other
three.