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200 Report of the Medical Officer of Health.
The four houses in Putney reported on in 1910 under the above
Act, have now been demolished, but the one in Wandsworth is
still used as a store shed.
The tables of house-to-house inspections show, as in former
years, the name of the street, the number of houses inspected, the
number of houses in which defects were found, and the number of
families living in one, two, three, and four rooms and upwards.
The defects found are given in the Table of Sanitary Operations,
as also the number of intimation and statutory notices
served and complied with.
Underground Rooms.
Several inspections were made of property to ascertain if any
additional underground rooms existed, but only three cases were
discovered in which there was illegal occupation of such rooms.
All the houses erected for occupation by the working classes
during the past 15 years have no basements, and consequently the
number of underground rooms in this Borough is very small.
Sanitary Operations.
Tables XCII., XCIII., and XCIV., show the number and
nature of the inspections made during the year by the Male and
Female Inspectors respectively.
These Tables show in more detail the varied character of the
work carried out by the Inspectors.
The number of complaints received and attended to was 2,394,
compared with 2,528 in 1912, 2,076 in 1911, and 1,789 in 1910.
There was an increase in Clapham South, Balham, Southfield,
and Fairfield Wards, and a decrease in Clapham North, Putney,
Streatham, Tooting, and Springfield Wards, compared with the
previous year.