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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 1917

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

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Report of the Medical Officer of Health.

Table: TABLE XXXVIII.Summary of Sanitary Operations in the Borough during the Year 1917.

TABLE XXXVIII.

Summary of Sanitary Operations in the Borough during the Year 1917.

Clapham.Putney.StreathamTooting.Wandsworth.Whole Borough.
North Ward.South ward.Streatham Ward.Balham Ward.South field Ward.Fairfield Ward.Spng field Ward.
Number of complaints received and attended to3453471714363565942661843483047
Number of houses and premises insDected50883754498750295048510142832699507941068
Number of houses and premises re-inspected57310568241020170617944817369159105
Number of house - to - house inspections10816517290186785850844
Number of preliminary notices served3752871713017327112463556043782
Ditto complied with4072782032998055692373664543618
Number of statutory notices served81313511372125935348
Ditto complied with12131321146491925289
Notices served for periodical removal of manure..............................
Number of rooms disinfected after infective diseases4794802649129189045704728565855
Bedding stoved146156270165309236141812251729
Overcrowding abated13...43815126
Rooms cleansed and repaired163155752898244981134005783095
Staircases cleansed and repaired7718136218575194883580
Drains cleansed and repaired67561614111096524798683
Drains tested196871088230932350655201740
Drains found defective4421820716441170
Traps fixed to drains35261331361...1116
Bath, lavatory and sink wastes altered to discharge outside over gullies or repaired416943462312373238
Rain water pipes disconnected from drains.........2............5153
Water closets cleansed and repaired1481024275287185621231981222
Water closets, separate supply of water laid on to.........3332.........38
Accumulations of manure, etc., removed77167252312...13155
Urinals cleansed, repaired or water laid on to31169324231
Cesspools abolished................1.........1
Ashpits provided or repaired3531i i4784773947106477
Dust complaints received6080143150140831213069876
Stables and stables yards drained, paved or cleansed15...32101841980
Yards drained,paved or cleansed816...425171163355292
Unwholesome or dilapidated houses cleansed or repaired.........1223413355
Leaky roofs and gutters repaired12980339311710233103132822
Damp courses inserted24182636115699
Damp conditions remedied392447961011202889122666
Houses re-supplied with water91511810715918102
Water cisterns cleansed, covered or repaired11381429301662049213
Animals kept so as to be a nuisance...31122158...2162
Smoke nuisances reported2...6......1...3719
Soil pipes repaired2824110202910104
Unclassified nuisances3014113669860635979780