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Report of the Medical Officer of Health.
The number of cases of overcrowding dealt with during the
year was 76, compared with 91 in 1911, 129 in 1910, and 131 in
1909. 12 of these were in Clapham, four in Putney, 19 in Streatham,
eight in Tooting, and 33 in Wandsworth.
The cases of overcrowding in Clapham were in Crichton Street,
Gauden Road, St. Andrew's Street, Midmoor Road, Wandsworth
Road and Nelsons Row; in Putney, in Gwalior Road, Pentlow
Street, Stanbridge Road and Biggs Row; in Streatham, in Larch
Road, Zennor Road, Fernlea Road, Verran Road, Foss Road,
Colmer Road, Mill Lane, Calders Row, Cowpers Row, and Fairview
Place; in Tooting, in Salvador, Letchworth Street and Khartoum
Road; in Wandsworth, in Bendon Valley, Guelph Street, Wardley
Street, Burtop Road, Beechcroft Road, Thornclean Street, Garratt
Lane, Warple Way, Baylin Road, Bell Lane, Point Pleasant,
Ironmill Road, Malva Road and Jews Row.
Nearly all these were cases of domestic overcrowding and were
remedied without difficulty by re-arrangement of the sleeping
accommodation, while in a few cases lodgers had been taken in
by the tenants.
717 ashpits were provided or repaired, compared with 831 in
1911,1,060 in 1910, and 1,292 in 1909. 567 complaints with reference
to the non-removal of house refuse (152 from Clapham, 60 from
Putney, 127 from Streatham, 21 from Tooting, and 207 from Wandsworth),
were received during the year. These complaints were,
as in previous years, attended to by the Dusting Inspectors.
956 yards in connection with dwelling-houses, and 103 in
connection with stables, were paved, drained, or cleansed, compared
with 1,105 and 123 in 1911.
5,248 rooms and 1,043 staircases and passages were cleansed or
repaired, compared with 5,026 rooms and 936 staircases and passages
in 1911.