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Wandsworth 1925
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Wandsworth, Metropolitan Borough]
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Sanitary Inspection of the Borough.
Underground Rooms.
There are 23 underground rooms in illegal occupation at the
present time and notices have been served, but owing to the
difficulty of other accommodation being obtained for the occupiers,
no further action can be taken in the meanwhile.
Housing, Act. 1905.
All house-to-house inspections under the Public Health
(London) Act, 1891, are carried out as if these were inspections
under Part IV. of the Housing Consolidated Regulations, 1925,
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 XXXV.
1,820 inspections were made, compared with 1,672 in 1924, and
nuisances were found in 1,527 of the houses, necessitatin the
service of sanitary notices.
TABLE XXXV.
| 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 | 40 | 40 | 27 | 55 | 25 | 12 |
| Clapham South | 59 | 52 | 6 | 6 | 15 | 41 |
| Putney | 113 | 45 | 3 | 10 | 41 | 66 |
| Streatham | 225 | 202 | 28 | 70 | 245 | 99 |
| Balham | 330 | 289 | 85 | 181 | 308 | 179 |
| Tooting | 312 | 241 | 6 | 8 | 11 | 345 |
| Southfield | 172 | 165 | 40 | 29 | 110 | 81 |
| Fairfield | 99 | 98 | 33 | 21 | 37 | 58 |
| Springfield | 470 | 395 | 118 | 120 | 406 | 251 |
| Whole Borough | 1820 | 1527 | 346 | 500 | 1198 | 1132 |
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