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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 1924

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

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Report of the Medical Officer of Health.
difficulty of other accommodation being obtained for the occupiers,
no further action can be taken in the meanwhile.
Housing, Town Planning, etc., 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. Where nuisances
are found, notices are served under the Public Health Act.
The results of these inspections are shown in Table XXXI.
1,672 inspections were made, compared with 2,001 in 1923, and
nuisances were found in 1,464 of the houses, necessitating the
service of sanitary notices.

Table: TABLE XXXI.

TABLE XXXI.

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 North505024432616
Clapham South07547121045
Putney4737114110
Streatham11510322514465
Balham32827572171217255
Tooting423377362998338
Southfield2202094529152113
Fairfield204179426963133
Springfield218180283818289
Whole Borough107214042774438331064