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Report of the Medical Officer of Health.
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Mortuaries.
The Mortuaries in Clapham, Streatham, Tooting and Wandsworth
have been visited several times during the year, and I am
able to report that the By-laws and Regulations have been carried
out in a satisfactory manner.
With reference to the Wandsworth Mortuary the Public
Health Committee have on several occasions had the question of
providing a new Mortuary for Wandsworth before them, and plans
have been prepared and laid before the Committee, but owing to
the war the matter has been postponed.
The Mortuary at Tooting has been closed, but a temporary
one has been provided pending the erection of a new one in Wandsworth.
in Clapham, 29 bodies were removed to the Mortuary, compared
with 40 in 1913; in Streatham 46, compared with 51; and in
Wandsworth 115, of which 57 were from Wandsworth, 32 from
Putney, seven from Streatham and 19 from Tooting, compared
with 114 in 1913—a total of 190 compared with 205 in 1913.
No infectious cases were admitted to any of the Mortuaries
during the year.
GENERAL SANITARY WORK IN 1914.
The following list shows the special inspections made by me
during the year:—
(i)—Special inspection was made of the land at the rear of
Ravensbury Road in the Borough of Wimbledon on account of
complaints as to damp conditions arising from the flooding of
the land for use as a Skating pond. I inspected the land with
the Medical Officer of Health for Wimbledon, but could find
no nuisance to any premises in this Borough arising from the