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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 1922
Report of the Medical Officer of Health for the year 1922
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SUMMARY OF INSPECTIONS, ETC., 1922.
| DESCRIPTION OF WORK. | Inspectors. | ||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| W. E. Groom. | W. Eagle. | G. W. Scudamore. | E. R. Collins. | G. G. Morley. | W.R. Farmer. | M. Malins. | H. C. Green. | R. F. Nash. | W. T. Worsfold. | D. Glenday. | Miss F. O'Riordan. | Miss M. Butcher. | Miss Mackenzie. | T. F. Morgan.* | H. J. Green.* | Totals. | |
| Visits to complaints | 267 | 327 | 291 | 255 | 314 | 419 | 236 | 479 | 225 | 362 | 593 | 8 | 3 | – | 35 | 29 | 3,843 |
| House inspections following complaints | 267 | 24 | 281 | 141 | 127 | 329 | 161 | 305 | 87 | 232 | 497 | – | – | – | 18 | 5 | 2,474 |
| House to-house inspections | 85 | 139 | 136 | 115 | 222 | 64 | 211 | 264 | 159 | 269 | 57 | – | – | – | 188 | 220 | 2,129 |
| Tenement inspections | – | – | – | – | 21 | – | 102 | – | – | 119 | – | – | – | – | – | 224 | 466 |
| Houses let in lodgings inspections | – | 3 | – | – | – | – | 119 | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | 122 |
| Housing and Town Planning inspections | – | – | 10 | – | – | 23 | 35 | 26 | – | – | 81 | – | – | – | – | – | 175 |
| Visits to new buildings | 244 | 44 | 61 | 771 | 863 | 136 | 23 | 24 | 83 | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | 2,249 |
| Visits re overcrowding | – | – | 5 | – | – | – | 8 | – | 1 | 10 | 5 | 7 | – | – | – | – | 36 |
| Slaughterhouses | 3 | 34 | 8 | 21 | – | 22 | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | 88 |
| Bakehouses | 33 | 33 | 46 | 52 | 53 | 68 | 38 | 44 | 21 | 47 | 27 | – | – | – | – | – | 462 |
| Cowhouses | – | 3 | 1 | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | 4 |
| Milkshops and dairies | 98 | 92 | 137 | 55 | 192 | 113 | 80 | 131 | 69 | 96 | 82 | – | – | – | – | 19 | 1,164 |
| Eating houses | 12 | 23 | 13 | 9 | 11 | 22 | 22 | 22 | 19 | 13 | 21 | – | – | – | – | – | 187 |
| Ice cream shops | 21 | 55 | 24 | 42 | 63 | 35 | 33 | 45 | 14 | 39 | 89 | – | – | – | – | – | 460 |
| Railway stations | 9 | 2 | 4 | 37 | 134 | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – |
| Workshops | 47 | 114 | 217 | 39 | 78 | 65 | 123 | 141 | 62 | 100 | 104 | 120 | 133 | 25 | 2 | 9 | 1,379 |
| Factories | 14 | – | – | 23 | – | 1 | 58 | 48 | 47 | 52 | 86 | 93 | 68 | 19 | 1 | 2 | 512 |
| Urinals, private | 104 | 156 | 206 | 73 | 332 | 406 | 123 | 120 | 118 | 139 | 83 | – | – | – | – | – | 1,860 |
| Do. public | 16 | 26 | – | – | 70 | – | 50 | 28 | – | 24 | 12 | – | – | – | – | – | 226 |
| Schools, L.C.C. | 1 | – | – | – | – | 9 | – | – | – | – | – | 3 | 21 | – | – | – | 34 |
| Do. private | – | – | – | 25 | 4 | 2 | – | – | 1 | – | – | 6 | 70 | – | – | – | 108 |
| Re-inspections | 3,106 | 3,698 | 2,958 | 3,710 | 3,646 | 4,281 | 3,186 | 3,870 | 2,906 | 3,426 | 5,816 | 12 | – | 1 | 1,496 | 1,508 | 43,620 |
| Miscellaneous | 46 | 125 | 80 | 160 | 147 | 154 | 351 | 257 | 313 | 165 | 167 | 1,941 | 653 | 402 | 46 | 4 | 5,011 |
| Infectious houses visited and houses inspected | 196 | 193 | 197 | 111 | 156 | 99 | 105 | 238 | 144 | 220 | 300 | 37 | 17 | 11 | 7 | 4 | 2,035 |
| Do. do. or enquiries | 64 | 45 | 62 | 26 | 54 | 44 | 41 | 64 | 61 | 117 | 39 | 69 | 127 | – | 1 | 11 | 825 |
| Tuberculosis cases visited and houses inspected | 2 | – | – | 1 | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | 189 | 58 | 55 | 2 | – | 307 |
| Do. do. or enquiries | 2 | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | 3 | – | – | 282 | 186 | 74 | – | – | 547 |
| Complaints, verminous children, visits | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | 46 | 13 | 8 | – | – | 67 |
| Infectious disease contacts | 7 | 40 | 11 | – | 48 | 14 | 38 | 29 | 42 | 64 | 16 | – | – | – | – | – | 309 |
| Inspections of foodstuffs | – | 24 | 71 | 11 | 3 | 100 | 102 | 60 | 76 | 125 | 77 | – | – | – | – | 7 | 656 |
| Seizures Do. | – | – | – | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | – | 3 | 2 | – | – | – | – | – | – | 10 |
| Outworkers | – | – | 1 | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | 647 | 963 | 105 | – | – | 1,716 |
| Measles | – | 1 | – | 1 | 1 | – | – | 1 | – | – | – | 619 | 1,015 | 512 | – | – | 2,150 |
| Scabies | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | 17 | 17 | 5 | – | – | 39 |
| Ophthalmia Neonatorum, visits | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | 14 | 16 | – | – | – | 30 |
| Smoke observations | – | 1 | – | – | – | 2 | 4 | 9 | 4 | – | – | – | – | – | – | 1 | 21 |
| Do. nuisances | – | – | – | – | – | – | 1 | 1 | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | 2 |
| Intimations | 476 | 499 | 441 | 448 | 606 | 367 | 735 | 557 | 405 | 666 | 624 | 37 | 17 | 1 | 181 | 361 | 6,421 |
| Statutory notices, Public Health | 204 | 225 | 167 | 230 | 247 | 191 | 252 | 282 | 88 | 367 | 154 | – | – | – | 104 | 56 | 2,567 |
| Notices, houses let in lodgings | – | 2 | – | – | – | – | 190 | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | 192 |
| Do. Section 28, Housing and Town Planning Act | – | 5 | 4 | 1 | – | 1 | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | 11 |
| Do. Section 29 do. do. | – | 8 | 14 | 8 | 14 | 4 | 9 | 7 | – | 21 | 25 | – | – | – | 9 | 18 | 137 |
| 5,324 | 5,941 | 5,446 | 6,366 | 7,408 | 6,972 | 6,437 | 7,052 | 4,951 | 6,675 | 8,955 | 4,147 | 3,377 | 1,218 | 2,090 | 2,478 | 84,837 | |
Number of summonses issued during 1922 in respect of nuisances 106
* Temporary appointment for 3 months only.
Number of summonses issued during 1922 in respect of disobedience of
Magistrates' orders 2
Number of summonses issued during 1922 in respect of unsound food 19