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12 Report of the Medical Officer of Health for 1942.
724 complaints of the presence of rats were investigated
by the Council's rat catcher, who made 1,298 visits and laid
baits.
MORTUARY AND CREMATORIUM.
The Mortuary at Wandsworth was used throughout the
year, and 240 bodies were received there.
As Medical Referees under the Crematorium Regulations,
1930, Dr. MacDonnell and I have authorised 225 cremations,
which took place at the Crematorium at Putney Vale Cemetery
HOUSING.
Work in connection with housing has again been on a
reduced scale, but 7,614 dwelling-houses were inspected for
defects by the Sanitary Inspectors, the total number of
inspections made being 20,922. 2,453 houses were found not
in all respects reasonably fit for human habitation, and of
these 251 were rendered fit without the service of any notice
It was necessary to serve intimation notices under the
Public Health (London) Act, 1936, in respect of 1,728 houses,
and in 465 houses the service of nuisance notices was necessary
HOUSING ACT, 1936.
The following four houses, on which Demolition Orders
were made on the 19th October, 1937, have been demolished
during the year:—
78, 80, 82 and 84 Point Pleasant.
One other house which I had scheduled as insanitary,
but on which no official action had yet been taken, was
damaged by enemy action and has since been demolished.
This was 39 Prescott Place, Clapham.
OVERCROWDING.
114 dwellings were recorded as overcrowded at the end
of the year.
33 cases of overcrowding, representing 227 persons, have
been abated during the year.