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Report of the Medical Officer of Health. 217
Street, Lydden Grove, Thornsett Road, Beechcroft Road, Lydden
Road, Groton Road, Warple Way, Baylin Road, Bell Lane, Point
Pleasant, Ironmill Road, Malva Road, and Jews' Row.
Most of these were cases of domestic overcrowding and were
remedied without difficulty by re-arrangement of the sleeping
accommodation, while in several cases lodgers had been taken in
by the tenants and these removed.
1,052 ashpits were provided or repaired, compared with 717 in
1912, 831 in 1911, and 1,060 in 1910. 473 complaints with reference
to the non-removal of house refuse, (82 from Clapham,71 from
Putney, 123 from Streatham, 26 from Tooting, and 171 from
Wandsworth), were received during the year. These complaints
were, as in previous years, attended to by the Dusting Inspectors.
959 yards in connection with dwelling-houses, and 65 in connection
with stables, were paved, drained, or cleansed, compared
with 956 and 103 in 1912.
5,388 rooms and 1,207 staircases and passages were cleansed or
repaired, compared with 5,248 rooms and 1,043 staircases and
passages in 1912.
The greatest number of rooms cleansed was in the Balham
Ward, where 1,236 were done, and in Springfield Ward, where
985 were done, and the smallest number in Southfield and Putney
where the numbers were 215 and 321 respectively.
1,128 drains were cleansed or repaired, and 17 rain-water pipes
disconnected from the drains.
145 notices of reconstruction of drains were sent to the Borough
Engineer from this Department : 21 in Clapham, compared with
23 in 1912 ; five in Putney, compared with six; 53 in Streatham,
compared with 54 ; 10 in Tooting, compared with 31 ; and 56 in
Wandsworth, compared with 52.