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Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London

Wandsworth 1914

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Wandsworth, Metropolitan Borough]

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176 Report of the Medical Officer of Health.

Table: TABLE XCI.DETAILS OF INSPECTIONS AND RE-INSPECTiONS, 1914. (Female inspectors.)

TABLE XCI.

DETAILS OF INSPECTIONS AND RE-INSPECTiONS, 1914. (Female inspectors.)

inspections.Re-inspections.Totals.
Number of complaints received and attended to19...19
Number of premises inspected on account of:—
Puerperal Fever602482
Ophthalmia Neonatorum1437150
Diarrhoea16623189
Pulmonary Tuberculosis3,2251903,415
Other forms of Tuberculosis6079616
Notification of Births5,5901695,759
Dressmakers' and Milliners' premises43826464
Laundries:—
Factories15511166
Workshops24616262
Workplaces12615141
Other Factories55...55
Other Workshops715132
Other Workplaces26618284
Domestic Workshops57158
Outworkers' premises36913382
Other5442546
Totals12,18353712,720

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The Tables of house-to-house inspections which follow show
the names of the streets and the number of houses inspected, the
number of houses in which defects were found, the percentage of
defects to houses inspected, as well as the number of families living
in one, two, three, and four rooms and upwards.
in 1,526 out of a total of 2,396 houses inspected, or 63.64 per
cent., sanitary defects necessitating the service of an intimation
notice were found.
The highest percentage was in Fairfield Ward, where the
percentage was 96.46, and the lowest in Southfield, where it was
only 31.73, the next lowest being Putney, where it was 33.12,