Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Barnes]
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TABLE
Showing the general work done in the Sanitary Department during 1907, and in the four preceding years.
Nature of Work Done. | 1903 | 1904 | 1905 | 1906 | 1907 |
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Inspections of houses and premises made | 3642 | 4142 | 4454 | 4315 | 4043 |
Notices served for abatement of defects Houses and Premises cleansed ant | 615 | 764 | 681 | 782 | 715 |
repaired | 129 | 220 | 96 | 178 | 96 |
Houses disinfected | 90 | 53 | 68 | 156 | 92 |
Defective drains (amended) | 47 | 42 | 42 | 46 | 42 |
Defective drains (reconstructed) | 8 | 22 | 31 | 28 | 19 |
Defective soil pipe ventilators | 6 | 15 | 18 | 1 | 3 |
Defective closet pans and traps (replaced) | 50 | 114 | 126 | 87 | 49 |
Dustbins (replaced) | 141 | 125 | 102 | 79 | 103 |
Defective flushing cisterns | 180 | 182 | 99 | 102 | 85 |
Cisterns cleansed and covered | 71 | 56 | 45 | 50 | 41 |
Premises on which animals causing nuisance | 5 | 7 | 8 | 3 | 2 |
Foul accumulations (removed) | 6 | 4 | 2 | 6 | 7 |
Defective roofs and eaves gutterings | 50 | 55 | 19 | 60 | 30 |
Insanitary Yards paved | 9 | 69 | 32 | 74 | 94 |
Floors ventilated | ... | ... | ...50 | 24 | |
Defective Mica Valves | 18 | 66 | 42 | 9 | 42 |
Burst pipes repaired | 8 | 2 | ... | ... | ... |
No proper receptable for manure or offal | 3 | 9 | ... | ... | ... |
Overcrowding (abated) | 6 | 11 | 3 | 4 | 3 |
Houses found unfit for habitation | 2 | 1 | ... | 21 | 1 |
Bakehouses inspected | 13 | 11 | 10 | 12 | 14 |
Cowsheds and Dairies inspected | 20 | 23 | 22 | 21 | 25 |
Licensed slaughter-houses inspected ... | 4 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 3 |
Factories and Workshops inspected | 128 | 140 | 154 | 180 | 194 |
Number of visits to notifiable diseases... | 116 | 108 | 70 | 176 | 106 |
Number of visits to non notifiable diseases | 42 | 154 | 51 | 158 | 291 |
Premises licensed for storage of Petroleum | 9 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 12 |
Complaints received | 33 | 45 | 49 | 42 | |
Summonses for abatement of Nuisances | 1 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 2 |