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

Bethnal Green 1949

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Bethnal Green Borough]

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Table: TABLE 4 Record of Visits

TABLE 4 Record of Visits

Notifiable Infectious Diseases450
Non-notifiable diseases82
Complaints as to insanitary conditions4,220
Food Poisoning13
Aged and Infirm persons85
Factories1,390
Milkshops548
Other Food premises1,255
Outworkers' houses225
Tenement houses106
Common Lodging Houses4
Drainage work3,727
Smoke observations1
Enquiries with regard to housing1,090
Other inspections and special work4,504
Slum Clearance Survey875
Re-inspections14,040
Total32,615

Table: TABLE 5 Sanitary Defects in Connection with which Notices were Served

TABLE 5 Sanitary Defects in Connection with which Notices were Served

Dirty rooms7,593
Defective drains and chocked W.Cs.623
Defective and dirty W.Cs.1,271
Defective water supply214
Defective paving157
Defective gutters and rain water pipes713
Defective roofs1,806
Dampness1,612
Defective dustbins172
Other defects5,833
Total19,994

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(4) Legal Proceedings.
On 51 occasions during the year it was necessary to take legal
proceedings to enforce compliance with the requirements of Notices
served.
In 11 of these cases Nuisance Orders were made by the
Magistrate with the infliction of fines and costs amounting to
£43 14s. 0d.