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Wood Green 1913
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Wood Green]
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51
SNITARY DEPARTMENT.
Town Hall,
Wood Green,
January, 1914.
To the Chairman and Members of the
Urban District Council of Wood Green.
Gentlemen,
I beg to submit my Annual Report of the work in this Department
for the year 1913.
There have been 59 complaints of various nuisances received at
the office. These have been entered in the Complaint Book, and
the results recorded in the Journal, according to the orders of the
Local Government Board.
The following are some of the nuisances dealt with upon complaint, and inspection of houses in connection with Infectious Disease:—
| No. of Drains opened and examined | 73 |
| ,, Drains unstopped and repaired | 94 |
| „ Drains re-constructed | 50 |
| ,, Disconnecting Traps or Chambers | 41 |
| „ Waste Pipes | 120 |
| „ Soil Pipes ventilated | 34 |
| ,, W. C. Apparatus | 63 |
| ,, W. C. Apparatus repaired | 2 |
| „ Water supplied to W.C | 26 |
| „ Sanitary Dust-bins | 290 |
| ,, Roofs repaired | 18 |
| „ Gutters and Rain Water Pipes repaired | 28 |
| „ Rooms cleansed | 202 |
| ,, Sites of Houses concreted | 17 |