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Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
Camberwell 1909
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Camberwell.
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RETURN OF WORK PERFORMED IN THE SANITARY DEPARTMENT DURING THE 52 WEEKS ENDING DECEMBER, 1909.
| INSPECTORS | Totals. | ||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pointon. | Eagle | Seudamore. | Collins. | Heath. | Kerslake. | Morley. | Homer. | Farmer. | Dewey. | Malins. | Miss Bevan. | ||
| Complaints | 81 | 89 | 151 | 44 | 55 | 18 | 72 | 151 | 86 | 132 | 76 | 4 | 959 |
| Inspections arising from complaints | 121 | 124 | 189 | 145 | 57 | 22 | 69 | 172 | 191 | 138 | 108 | 2 | 1,338 |
| House to house inspections | 605 | 573 | 268 | 309 | 548 | 59 | 380 | 347 | 348 | 382 | 776 | – | 4,595 |
| Tenement houses inspected | 2 | – | – | 4 | 201 | 3 | 9 | 11 | 16 | 179 | 87 | – | 512 |
| Houses let in lodgings inspected | – | – | 5 | – | – | – | – | 56 | – | 18 | 773 | – | 852 |
| New buildings inspected | 86 | 13 | – | 142 | 8 | 1 | 184 | 6 | 6 | 18 | 10 | – | 474 |
| Visits to new buildings | 188 | 55 | 2 | 1587 | 96 | 8 | 963 | 3 | 28 | 87 | 121 | – | 3,138 |
| No. of inspections of slaughterhouses | 21 | 25 | 3 | 53 | 7 | 4 | – | 7 | – | 3 | 6 | – | 129 |
| Do do. bakehouses | 74 | 32 | 49 | 44 | 20 | 20 | 73 | 81 | 110 | 54 | 56 | – | 613 |
| Do. do. cowhouses and dairies | 54 | 58 | 3 | 39 | 9 | 1 | 5 | 5 | 10 | 32 | 1 | – | 217 |
| Do. do. milk shops | 174 | 89 | 201 | 45 | 83 | 55 | 116 | 155 | 105 | 166 | 152 | – | 1,341 |
| Do. do. ice cream shops | 78 | 28 | 34 | 24 | 39 | 30 | 59 | 49 | 45 | 20 | 17 | – | 423 |
| Do. do. railway stations | 29 | 4 | 10 | 50 | – | – | 17 | – | – | 1 | – | – | 111 |
| Do. do. workshops | 135 | 76 | 237 | 56 | 146 | 52 | 42 | 220 | 65 | 118 | 130 | 584 | 1,861 |
| Do. do. urinals, public | 85 | 52 | – | – | 3 | 7 | 11 | 39 | 30 | 66 | 63 | 1 | 357 |
| Do. do. do. private | 166 | 308 | 212 | 151 | 168 | 48 | 304 | 386 | 471 | 134 | 235 | – | 2,583 |
| Do. do. schools, L.C.C. | 41 | 56 | 28 | 38 | 21 | 19 | 35 | 68 | 82 | 72 | 63 | 2 | 525 |
| Do. do. do. private | 57 | 5 | 3 | 49 | 9 | 10 | 56 | 8 | 65 | 8 | 44 | 12 | 326 |
| Do. do. laundries | 64 | 7 | – | 2 | 3 | – | 8 | 16 | 15 | 3 | – | 125 | 243 |
| Do. do. re overcrowding | 69 | 3 | 23 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 8 | 23 | – | 32 | 106 | 1 | 270 |
| Do. do. eating houses | 61 | 21 | 22 | 5 | 28 | 15 | 19 | 28 | 13 | 18 | 36 | 114 | 380 |
| Do. do. factories | 55 | – | – | 6 | 12 | 1 | – | 31 | – | – | 42 | 105 | 252 |
| Do. do. reoutworkers | – | – | – | – | – | – | 1 | – | – | – | – | 1,095 | 1,096 |
| Miscellaneous | 157 | 32 | 99 | 81 | 29 | 31 | 126 | 298 | 18 | 670 | 499 | 1,048 | 3,098 |
| Re-inspections | 3,290 | 4,112 | 3,308 | 3,129 | 1,783 | 540 | 3,601 | 3,265 | 4,462 | 2,066 | 2,206 | 178 | 31,940 |
| No. of infected houses | 101 | 155 | 260 | 103 | 97 | 19 | 145 | 195 | 143 | 178 | 218 | 6 | 1,620 |
| Do. do. re-visited | 96 | 18 | 118 | 52 | 4 | 11 | 45 | 158 | 80 | 48 | 70 | – | 700 |
| Measles | 1 | – | – | – | – | 1 | – | – | – | 14 | – | – | 16 |
| Intimations served under P.H. Act | 495 | 605 | 313 | 305 | 301 | 67 | 308 | 243 | 531 | 532 | 804 | 66 | 4,570 |
| Statutory notices under P.H. Act | 93 | 177 | 111 | 83 | 81 | 10 | 44 | 14 | 152 | 93 | 142 | 16 | 1,016 |
| Notices re houses let in lodgings | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | 47 | – | 34 | 96 | – | 177 |
| Summonses under the P.H. Act | 3 | 4 | 21 | 1 | 5 | 1 | 1 | – | 5 | 3 | 8 | – | 52 |
| Small-pox contacts | 4 | – | 1 | 7 | – | – | 18 | – | 15 | 2 | 98 | – | 145 |
| Cholera do. | – | 21 | 6 | 12 | – | 5 | 24 | – | 10 | 9 | – | – | 87 |
| Tuberculosis Regulation | 61 | – | 185 | 4 | 6 | – | 26 | 24 | 20 | 63 | 66 | – | 455 |