London's Pulse: Medical Officer of Health reports 1848-1972
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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
Greenwich 1910
The annual report made to the Council of the Metropolitan Borough of Greenwich for the year 1910
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SUMMARY OF SANITARY WORK—continued.
| First Quarter. | Second Quarter. | Third Quarter. | Fourth Quarter. | Total. | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Unwholesome Food— con tinned. | ||||||
| Voluntarily surrendered | 1 kit of skate. 1 trunk of haddock 2 busheles of apples. 20 sheeps' lungs. 37½ qrtrs. of damaged oats. trunk of mackerel | 1 box of magnums. 36 lbs. of cod and hake. 15 sheeps' lungs. 13 hadd'cks | 1 trunk whiting. 14 sheeps' lungs. | box of cod. kit of mackerel box of hadd'cks ½ bushel of apples 12 lbs. apples. 12 lbs. pears. box of kippers. 1 cystic sheeps' lung. 1 ox lung (parasitic). 422 sheeps' lungs (parasitic). 2 boxes kippers. 1 trunk of cod. | ||
| Notices, &c. Intimations Served under Public Health (London) Act, 1891 (Section 3) | 359 | 415 | 323 | 400 | 1497 | |
| Complaints Received | 76 | 98 | 66 | 82 | 322 | |
| Complaints Attended to | 76 | 98 | 66 | 82 | 322 | |
| Statutory Notices Served under Section 4 | 75 | 133 | 33 | 90 | 331 | |
| Statutory Notices re Ashpit provision | 23 | 34 | 11 | 20 | 88 | |
| Letters Written relating to Abatement of Nuisances | 94 | 102 | 95 | 93 | 384 | |
| Summonses Applied for and Issued | 3 | ... | 1 | ... | 4 | |
| Magisterial Orders Obtained and Enforced | 2 | ... | 1 | ... | 3 | |
| Drainage Plans received and examined | 26 | 28 | 34 | 29 | 117 | |