Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Wandsworth, Metropolitan Borough]
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Report of the Medical Officer of Health.
Housing, Town Planning, &c., Act, 1909.
All house-to-house inspections under the Public Health (London)
Act, 1891, are carried out as if these were inspections under
Section 17 of the Housing, Town Planning, etc., Act, 1909, and the
results recorded on a special card which was drawn up in 1910 and
has been in use since that date. This method has been found to
work most satisfactorily. Where nuisances are found, notices are
served under the Public Health Act.
The results of these inspections are shown in Table XXXIII.
2,001 inspections were made, compared with 2,714 in 1922, and
nuisances were found in 1,761 of the houses, necessitating the service
of sanitary notices.
TABLE XXXIV.
Wards. | No. of houses inspected. | No. of houses in which defects, were found. | Number of Families Living in. | |||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
One room. | Two rooms. | Three rooms. | Four rooms and upwards | |||
Clapham North | 162 | 159 | 52 | 53 | 49 | 109 |
Clapham South | 108 | 87 | 10 | 19 | 15 | 78 |
Putney | 286 | 260 | 12 | 24 | 210 | 175 |
Streatham | 182 | 162 | 21 | 42 | 113 | 113 |
Balham | 401 | 360 | 107 | 103 | 286 | 313 |
Tooting | 228 | 165 | 14 | 17 | 326 | 152 |
Southfield | 168 | 146 | 44 | 10 | 155 | 81 |
Fairfield | 218 | 207 | 29 | 50 | 56 | 176 |
Springfield | 248 | 215 | 26 | 49 | 136 | 144 |
Whole Borough | 2001 | 1761 | 315 | 367 | 1346 | 1341 |
Rent and Mortgage Interest Restrictions Act, 1923.
113 applications for Certificates under both the Increase of
Rent and Mortgage Interest (Restrictions) Act, 1920, and the
above Act, which succeeded the former in August, 1923, were