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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

Holborn 1914

Report for the year 1914 of the Medical Officer of Health

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Table: TABLE V. Sanitary Inspectors' Work.—Inspections, &c.

TABLE V. Sanitary Inspectors' Work.—Inspections, &c.

Inspector Bennett.Inspector Clark.Inspector Larard.Inspector Orange.Whole Borough
Inspections.Infectious Diseases7192117225505
Dwelling Houses1122401125469
Lodging Houses3362412521831,012
Common Lodging Houses—139—22
Dairies, Cowsheds and Milkshops83278303—664
Ice Cream—Manufacture or Storage92297—128
Slaughter-house—10——10
Market Streets20970464—803
Butchers' Shops601188272—961
Bakehouses358899—222
Other Food Shops191187481—869
Laundries322916
Other Workshops11416182119476
Out-Workers' Rooms and Registers214734159261
Other Workplaces7977651222
Factories (excluding Bakehouses and Laundries)291541186
Smoke shafts62181—108
Urinals14411—66
Miscellaneous1724218039433
Periodical Inspections*1,3362,1102,610916,147
Dust†4821859—325
Mews13010337—270
Maternity———629529
Total Inspections3,5464,2695,4081,36114,584
No. of Re-Inspections8061,4869035974,989
Do. do. Maternity———1,197
Visits other than Inspections and Re-Inspections3857057712282,204
Do. do. Maternity———112
Total4,7376,4607,0853,49521,777

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* The majority of these are weekly inspections of Registered Lodging Houses,
† A large number of inspections respecting the removal of Refuse is also made during
General and Periodical Inspections of houses.
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