[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Wimbledon].

  • Wimbledon (London, England). Borough Council.
Date:
[1944?]
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Credit: [Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Wimbledon]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Reason of Visit No. Infectious Diseases 681 House Inspections 3,505 Inspections under Housing Acts, 1936 136 House to House Inspections 897 Rent Act Inspections 4 Houses Let in Lodgings Inspections — Inspection of Factories, Workshops, Workplaces and Outworkers' premises 107 Dairies and Cowsheds Inspections 77 Inspections under Shops Acts 9 Application of Tests to Drains 113 Inspections under Diseases of Animals' Acts - Obtaining Samples of Foods and Drugs 195 Miscellaneous (including Inspections of Feed, slaughterhouses, news, stables, caravans, Petroleum Acts, water supply, piggeries, mosquitoes, etc.) 3,068 Total 8,774 r Notices Served. - One thousand two hundred and thirty one preliminary notices or intimations were served during the year. It was found necessary to serve two hundred and eleven Statu tory Notices. House Inspection.- The 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 47 Cisterns provided - Cisterns repaired, cleansed or covered 15 Drains, new, provided 54 Drainage systems made water-tight by patent process 27 Drains, repaired or altered 37 Drains, stoppages removed 66 Dustbins provided 181 Flushing cisterns, new, provided 12 Flushing cisterns, repaired 73 Manure receptacles provided 1 Rain-water pipes disconnected 4 Roofs repaired 284 Rooms stripped and cleansed 451 Verminous rooms cleansed 44 Soilpipes, new, provided 4 Soilpipes, repaired or altered 4 Vent pipes, new, provided 8 Vent pipes, repaired or altered 13 Waste pipes, new, provided 17 Waste pipes, repaired, disconnected or trapped 22 Water-closets, new,provided 50 Water-closets, repaired or ventilated 12 Water services restored 26 Water supply direct from main 3 Yards paved 13 Yards repaired 12 Guttering repaired 146 Floors ventilated 5 Nuisances from damp walls abated 203 Sinks provided 8 Other nuisances 1,597 Rooms disinfected 639 Total 4,078 -11-