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Report of the Medical Officer of Health. 189
Road, Rookstone Road, Himley Road and Gilbey Road ; in
Wandsworth, in Penwith Road, Brandlehow Road, Pier Terrace,
Guelph Street, Jew's Row, Twilley Street, Bridgefield Grove,
Ballantine Street, Malva Road, York Road, Garratt Lane, Vermont
Street, Ferrier Street, Baylin Road, Aslett Street, Bendon Valley,
Beechcroft Road, Dunt's Hill Road, Thornsett Road, Maskell
Road, Atheldene Road, and Cubitts Cottages.
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.
1,860 ashpits were provided or repaired, compared with 1,052
in 1913, 717 in 1912, and 831 in 1911. 289 complaints with reference
to the non-removal of house refuse (45 from Clapham, 47 from
Putney, 95 from Streatham, nine from Tooting, and 93 from Wandsworth),
were received during the year. These complaints were,
as in previous years, attended to by the Dusting Inspectors.
869 yards in connection with dwelling-houses, and 116 in connection
with stables, were paved, drained, or cleansed, compared
with 959 and 65 in 1913.
4,896 rooms and 911 staircases and passages were cleansed or
repaired, compared with 5,388 rooms and 1,207 staircases and
passages in 1913.
The greatest number of rooms cleansed was in the Balham
Ward, where 1,123 were done, and in Fairfield Ward, where 667
were done, and the smallest number in Southfield and Putney
where the numbers were 255 and 271 respectively.
1,025 drains were cleansed or repaired, and 98 rain-water pipes
disconnected from the drains.
101 notices of reconstruction of drains were sent to the Borough
Engineer from this Department : 24 in Clapham, compared with
21 in 1913 ; four in Putney, compared with five ; 41 in Streatham,
compared with 53 ; nine in Tooting, compared with 10 ; and 23 in
Wandsworth, compared with 56.