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Report of the Medical Officer of Health.
The table of house-to-house inspections shows, as in former
years, the name of the ward in which the inspections took place, 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 no cases were this year
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 LXIV., LXV., and LXVI. 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 2,709,
compared with 2,548 in 1914, 2,394 in 1913, and 2,528 in 1912.
There was an increase in Putney, Tooting and Springfield
Wards, and a decrease in all the other Wards, compared with the
previous year.
Five of these complaints were made to the London County
Council, and these were at once attended to.