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Wood Green 1906

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Wood Green]

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21
SANITARY DEPARTMENT.
Town Hall,
Wood Green,
January, 1907.
To the Chairman and Members of the Wood Green
Urban District Council.
Gentlemen,
I have the honour to submit my Annual Report of the Work in
this Department during the year ending December 31st, 1906.
There has been 126 Complaints received at the office of
various nuisances.
As in previous years I have included under the head of Special
Complaints all nuisances found, except those of House to House
Inspection, which appear under that head in another column.
SPECIAL COMPLAINTS.
No. of Drains Opened and Examined 109
„ „ Unstopped, Repaired 97
„ „ Reconstructed 94
„ Disconnecting traps or chambers inserted 60
„ Waste pipes, rain-water pipes, &c., disconnected 110
,, Soil pipes ventilated SI
„ New flush cisterns to W.C.'s 27
,, New apparatus to W.C.'s 81
„ W.C.'s cleansed and repaired 25
„ W.C.'s supplied with water 12
,, Houses supplied with water 3
„ Sanitary dustbins supplied 192
„ Roofs repaired 13
„ Rain-water pipes and gutters repaired 21
„ Surfaces of ground adjoining houses paved 25
„ Houses cleansed 21