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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

Barnes 1910

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Barnes]

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Table: TABLEShowing the general work done in the Sanitary Department during 1910, and in the four preceding years.

TABLE

Showing the general work done in the Sanitary Department during 1910, and in the four preceding years.

Nature of Work Done.19061907190819091910
Inspections of houses and premises made43154043428441054144
Notices served for abatement of defects782715486400406
Houses and Premises cleansed and repaired17896129159149
Houses disinfected1569274135113
Defective drains (amended)4642696740
Defective drains (reconstructed)2819311823
Defective soil pipe ventilators(madegood)136......
Defective closet pans and traps (replaced)8749382318
Caps to interceptors replaced.........153
Dustbins (replaced)791039111577
Defective flushing cisterns (repaired)102851239483
Cisterns cleansed and covered50413921191
Premises on which animals causing nuisance3233...
Foul accumulations (removed)6717621
Defective roofs and eaves' gutterings6030373833
Insanitary Yards paved7494763775
Floors ventilated502413347
Defective Mica Valves (made good)942311223
No proper receptacle for manure or offal......2......
Overcrowding (abated)43136
Houses found unfit for habitation211082
Bakehouse inspections1214131358
Dairy inspections21252626115
Licensed slaughter-house inspections433256
Factory and Workshops inspections180194206206419
Number of visits to notifiable diseases17610681289192
Premises licensed for storage of Petroleum1312141315
Complaints received4942465272
Summonses for abatement of Nuisances128...1*

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* Under Petroleum Acts.