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Report of the Medical Officer of Health. 129
field Grove, Aslett Street, Lydden Grove, Steerforth Street, Guelph
Street, Garratt Lane, Franchecourt Road, Inman Road, Cubitt's
Cottages and Maskell Road.
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.
689 ashpits were provided or repaired, compared with 1,860
in 1914, 1,052 in 1913, 717 in 1912. 539 complaints with reference
to the non-removal of house refuse (91 from Clapham, 94 from
Putney, 181 from Streatham, 71 from Tooting, and 102 from Wandsworth),
were received during the year. These complaints were, as
in previous years, attended to by the Dusting Inspectors.
534 yards in connection with dwelling-houses, and 121 in connection
with stables, were paved, drained, or cleansed, compared
with 869 and 116 in 1914.
3,888 rooms and 712 staircases and passages were cleansed or
repaired, compared with 4,896 rooms and 911 staircases and
passages in 1914.
The greatest number of rooms cleansed was in the Springfield
Ward, where 879 were done, and in Balham Ward, where 672 were
done, and the smallest number in Putney, Southfield and Clapham
South where the numbers were 193, 202 and 202 respectively.
808 drains were cleansed or repaired, and 58 rain-water pipes
disconnected from the drains.
36 notices of reconstruction of drains were sent to the Borough
Engineer from this Department: six from Clapham, compared with
24 in 1914; two in Putney, compared with four; 14 in Streatham,
compared with 41; one in Tooting, compared with nine ; and 13 in
Wandsworth, compared with 23.
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