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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 1915

Report for the year 1915 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 Diseases1358696168475
Dwelling Houses150238836477
Lodging Houses339212187260998‡
Common Lodging Houses—207-27
Dairies, Cowsheds and Milkshops41211255-607
Ice Cream—Manufacture or Storage21947—77
Slaughter-house—7--7
Market Streets32749407-783
Butchers' Shops540113278-931
Bakehouses205898-176
Other Food Shops35495541-990
Laundries113611
Other Workshops158118157114547
Out-Workers' Rooms and Registers314961160301
Other Workplaces9131881211
Factories (excluding Bakehouses and Laundries)3924763142
Smoke shafts21812-32
Urinals-472-49
Miscellaneous2361341618539
Periodical Inspections1,5072,3172,72776,558*
Dust3614276—254†
Mews16411941-324
Maternity---463463
Total Inspections4,1924,0985,4031,18614,879
No. of Re-Inspections9221,2207315824,924
Do. do. Maternity---1,469
Visits other than Inspections and Re-Inspections3778865962082,173
Do. do. Maternity---107
Total5,4916,2046,7293,55221,976

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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.
‡ See also Periodical Inspections.