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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
Wimbledon 1942
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Wimbledon]
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| Reason of Visit | No. |
|---|---|
| Infectious Diseases | 556 |
| House Inspections | 3756 |
| Inspection under Housing Acts 1936 | 34 |
| House to House Inspections | 634 |
| Rent Act Inspections | 4 |
| Houses Let in Lodgings Inspections | |
| Inspection of Factories, Workshops, Workplaces and Outworkers' premises | 112 |
| Dairies and Cowsheds Inspections | 57 |
| Inspections under Shops Acts | 7 |
| Application of Tests to Drains | 70 |
| Inspections under Diseases of Animals' Acts | 4 |
| Obtaining Samples of Foods and Drugs | 193 |
| Miscellaneous (including Inspections of Food, slaughterhouses, mews, stables, caravans, Petroleum Acts, water supply, piggeries, mosquitoes, etc.) | 2665 |
| Total | 8092 |
Notices Served.- Eight hundred and twenty-nine preliminary notices
or intimations were served during the year.
It was found necessary to serve two hundred and eight Statutory
Notices.
House Inspection.- Tho following table gives a summary of the nuisances abated and the sanitary improvements carried out, together with the defects remedied, as a result of house to house inspection under the supervision of the Sanitary inspectors:-
| Accumulations removed | 39 |
| Cisterns provided | 1 |
| Cisterns repaired, cleansed or covered | 10 |
| Drains , new, provided | 13 |
| Drainage systems made water-tight by patent process | 1 |
| Drains, repaired or altered | 33 |
| Drains, stoppages removed | 50 |
| Dustbins provided | 85 |
| Flushing cisterns, new, provided | 5 |
| Flushing sicterns repaired | 59 |
| Manure receptacles provided | 1 |
| Rain-water pipes disconnected | - |
| Roofs repaired | 176 |
| Rooms stripped and cleansed | 327 |
| Verminous rooms cleansed | 24 |
| Soilpipes, new, provided | 11 |
| Soiplipes, repaired or altered | 2 |
| Vent pipes, new provided | 3 |
| Vent pipes, repaired or altered | 6 |
| Waste pipes, new , provided | 7 |
| Waste pipes, repaired, disconnected or trapped | 19 |
| Water-closets, new provided | 27 |
| Water-closets, repaired or ventilated | 14 |
| Water Services restored | 33 |
| Water supply direct from main | 2 |
| Yards paved | 3 |
| Yards repaired | 7 |
| Guttering repaired | 92 |
| Floors ventilated | 15 |
| Nuisances from damp walls abated | 128 |
| Sinks provided | 128 |
| Other nuisances | 1222 |
| Rooms disenfected | 410 |
| Total | 2953 |
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