[Report 1896] / Medical Officer of Health, Surrey County Council.
- Surrey (England). County Council
- Date:
- 1896
Licence: Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)
Credit: [Report 1896] / Medical Officer of Health, Surrey County Council. Source: Wellcome Collection.
35/102 (page 29)
![[The necessity of such Bye-laws is conspicuously shown by such a Croydon case as the drainage of the Metropolitan Police Station into the Chalk formation at Kenley. In this district 80 to 100 new labourers’ cottages are to be shortly built, and it is hoped the Bye-laws will be in operation before they are erected.] (8). The removal or abatement of nuisances injurious to health by routine sanitary inspection as described fully in the Beport of the Medical Officer of Health. [The sum total of visits made under his directions for the above purpose amounts to 4724. It would be impossible to over-estimate the value of this work.] (4) . The necessity of providing against overcrowding by means of a comprehensive scheme is under consideration. (5) . During the year, 48 houses have been represented by the Medical Officer of Health as so dangerous to health as to be unfit for habitation. The Table of Besults is given at page 40 of his Annual Beport. In a small proportion the houses have been closed or demolished, while in the majority the condition and surroundings were so transformed after the Magistrate’s order to close, that the dwellings were practically rendered fit for habitation. (6) . Inspections are made of villa residences, but the results are not recorded separately, as is done at Surbiton. At Surbiton it is recorded by the Medical Officer of Health that Surbiton, a thoroughly well qualified and active Sanitary Inspector has been appointed to act under his directions. During nine months of 1896 it appears that some 70 residences, some of them of the villa class, had their sanitation changed for the better, and that 124 houses of another class, probably let at weekly rents, had sanitary conveniences supplied, wdiich they were previously without. At Kingston action has been taken under the Housing of the Kingston. Working Classes Act in a few cases, but the improvements effected thereby appear, from the Medical Officer’s Beport, not to have been](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b30148376_0035.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
