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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

Hampstead 1918

Report for the year 1918 of the Medical Officer of Health

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Table: TABLE IV. Statement of information, and of sanitary work accomplished, Sec., during 1918.

TABLE IV. Statement of information, and of sanitary work accomplished, Sec., during 1918.

Total number of Inspections,3054.Re-inspections,5784.
,, Intimation Notices,336.StatutoryNotices,107.
,, deposits of plans and particulars for redrainage work, &c., 165.
,, Complaints of insanitary conditions received and investigated, 602.
Smoke Nuisances —
Number of nuisances and complaints2
,, of observations14
,, of notices—
,, of summonses—
Hoaxing of the Working Clauses—
Number of houses inspected4
,, dealt with under section 15 of the Housing, Town Planning, etc., Act, 1909nil
,, of representations4
,, of houses remedied without closing orders—
,, of closing orders4
,, remedied after closing orders—
„ of houses demolished—
Other details—
No. on Register.No. of Inspections.No. of Notices.No. oi Frosecutons.
Houses let in Lodgings 405781121—
Common Lodging Houses ————
Underground Rooms —
Number illegally occupied24
,, closed or illegal occupation discontinued18
„ of prosecutions—
Overcrowding—
Number of rooms overcrowded12
,, remedied12
,, of prosecutions—