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 Wandsworth, Metropolitan Borough]
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Report of the Medical Officer of Health.
Underground Rooms.
There are six underground rooms known to be in illegal
occupation at the present time and notices have been served,
but owing to the difficulty of the occupiers in finding other
accommodation no further action can be taken at the present
time.
Housing Act, 1925.
All house-to-house inspections under the Public Health
(London) Act, 1891, are carried out as if these were inspections
under Part IV. of the Housing Consolidated Regulations,
1925, and the results recorded on a special card which was drawn
up in 1910 and has been in use since that date. Where nuisances
are found, notices are served under the Public Health Act.
The results of these inspections are shown in Table XXXVII.
989 inspections were made, compared with 1,435 in 1927, and
nuisances were found in 796 of the houses, necessitating the
service of sanitary notices.
TABLE XXXVII.
Wards. | No. of houses inspected. | No. of houses in which defects, were found. | Number of Families Living in:— | |||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
One room. | Two rooms. | Three rooms. | Four rooms and upwards | |||
Clapham North | 59 | 55 | 21 | 59 | 38 | 17 |
Clapham South | 169 | 116 | 13 | 16 | 139 | 106 |
Putney | 40 | 35 | 4 | 3 | 47 | — |
Streatham | 203 | 179 | 3 | 13 | 275 | 85 |
Balham | 66 | 45 | 4 | 22 | 47 | 36 |
Tooting | 2157 | 183 | 19 | 25 | 59 | 264 |
Southfield | 44 | 36 | 4 | 7 | 31 | 20 |
Fairfield | 8 | 8 | — | 1 | 1 | 7 |
Springfield | 163 | 139 | 48 | 57 | 116 | 79 |
Whole Borough | 989 | 796 | 116 | 203 | 753 | 614 |