Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
Report for the year 1903 of the Medical Officer of Health
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TABLE V- Sanitary Inspectors' Work.
Inspector Bennett. | Inspector Clark. | Inspector Gregory. | Inspector Larard. | Inspector Freeman. | Inspector Lovibond (1 week). | Whole Borough. | ||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Complaints | 47 | 71 | 48 | 50 | 3 | – | 219 | |
Inspections. | Infectious Diseases | 109 | 114 | 62 | 77 | 16 | 1 | 379 |
Dwelling Houses | 273 | 512 | 133 | 383 | 21 | – | 1,322 | |
Lodging Houses | 440 | 75 | 178 | 143 | 232 | – | 1,068 | |
Common Lodging Houses | 25 | 5 | 9 | 143 | – | – | 47 | |
Dairies, Cowsheds and Milkshops | 153 | 212 | 96 | 316 | 35 | – | 812 | |
Ice Creams— Manufacture or Storage | 27 | 14 | 14 | 124 | – | – | 179 | |
Slaughter-houses | – | 28 | – | – | – | – | 28 | |
Market Streets | 150 | 45 | 214 | 272 | 37 | – | 718 | |
Butchers' Shops | 174 | 142 | 169 | 45 | 9 | – | 539 | |
Bakehouses | 22 | 17 | 12 | 15 | 1 | – | 67 | |
Other Food Shops | 69 | 73 | 46 | 94 | 22 | – | 304 | |
Other Workshops | 103 | 111 | 125 | 206 | 218 | 39 | 802 | |
Out-Workers' Rooms and Registers | 21 | 59 | 9 | 18 | – | – | 107 | |
Workplaces | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | |
Schools | 3 | 2 | 1 | 3 | – | – | 9 | |
Smoke shafts | 51 | 15 | 11 | 30 | – | – | 107 | |
Urinals | 3 | 109 | 18 | 57 | – | – | 187 | |
Miscellaneous | 88 | 48 | 40 | 183 | 7 | – | 366 | |
Periodical Inspections | 361 | 448 | 143 | 695 | – | – | 1,647 | |
Total Inspections | 2,072 | 2,029 | 1,280 | 2,669 | 598 | 40 | 8,688 | |
No.of Re-Inspections | 1,463 | 2,178 | 1,089 | 998 | 1,568 | – | 7,296 | |
Visits other than Inspections and Re-Inspections | 598 | 1,050 | 354 | 957 | 495 | 41 | 3,495 | |
Total | 4,133 | 5,257 | 2,723 | 4,624 | 2,661 | 81 | 19,479 | |
Intimation Notices Served | 181 | 385 | 193 | 460 | 131 | – | 1,350 | |
Houses | 164 | 368 | 182 | 403 | 56 | – | 1,173 | |
Waterclosets defective or dirty | 71 | 154 | 69 | 173 | 18 | – | 485 | |
insufficient | 71 | 44 | 12 | 9 | 14 | – | 87 | |
Drains defective | 22 | 18 | 27 | 12 | 9 | – | 88 | |
Soil pipes or waste pipes defective | 19 | 28 | 24 | 26 | 7 | – | 104 | |
Gullies defective | 2 | 13 | 4 | 8 | 6 | – | 33 | |
Ash-bins defective | 4 | 8 | 4 | 11 | 1 | – | 28 | |
„ absence of | 2 | 7 | 19 | 7 | 3 | – | 38 | |
Water supply defective | 1 | 6 | 1 | – | – | – | 8 | |
„cistern dirty or defective | 10 | 19 | 18 | 14 | 6 | – | 67 | |
„ fittings defective | – | 14 | – | – | – | – | 14 | |
Yard or area paving defective | 7 | 31 | 21 | 11 | 7 | – | 77 | |
Roof or guttering defective | 12 | 40 | 26 | 46 | 6 | – | 130 | |
Accumulations | 10 | 39 | 16 | 26 | 2 | – | 93 | |
Premises dirty | 44 | 137 | 67 | 113 | 20 | – | 381 | |
overcrowded | 8 | 35 | 6 | 34 | – | – | 83 | |
other defects | 9 | 31 | 10 | 92 | 4 | – | 146 | |
Underground rooms | 1 | 15 | 3 | – | 2 | – | 21 | |
Animals improperly kept | 1 | 3 | 4 | – | 1 | – | 9 | |
Smoke nuisances | 4 | 1 | 3 | 9 | – | – | 17 | |
Urinals | 1 | 8 | 7 | 3 | – | – | 19 | |
Other nuisances | 1 | – | 3 | – | – | – | 4 | |
Manure receptacles, absence of | – | 7 | 14 | – | 1 | – | 22 | |
† Factories and Workshops | 17 | 17 | 11 | 57 | 75 | – | 177 | |
Dirty | 17 | 8 | 7 | 18 | 33 | – | 83 | |
Waterclosets, defective or dirty | 2 | 7 | 4 | 32 | 41 | – | 86 | |
„ insufficient | – | – | 4 | 2 | 1 | – | 3 | |
„ absence of separate accommodation for sexes | 1 | – | 1 | 4 | 2 | – | 8 | |
Drains, soil pipes, &c., defective | 2 | 5 | 1 | – | 16 | – | 24 | |
Improperly ventilated | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | |
Overcrowded | – | 4 | – | 1 | 1 | – | 6 | |
Other nuisances | – | 3 | – | – | 32 | – | 35 | |
Breach of Bye-laws or Regulations— ‡ Lodging houses | 4 | 24 | 45 | 29 | 104 | – | 206 | |
Dairies, cowsheds, milkshops and slaughter-houses | – | 160 | – | 2 | – | – | 2 | |
Statutory Notices Served | 42 | 160 | 74 | 147 | 15 | – | 338 |
* The majority of these are weekly inspections of Registered Lodging Houses.
† Many nuisances at workshops, that are parts of dwelling houses, are included in the Intimation Notices served
under " Houses."
‡ Many breaches of bye-laws are included in Intimation Notices served under " Houses."