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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
Deptford 1953
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Deptford Borough]
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TABLE II Summary of Sanitary Work Carried Out During the Year 1953
| Districts | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | Total | |
| Primary Inspections Complaints | 171 | 283 | 232 | 304 | 167 | 248 | 312 | 471 | 2,188 |
| Infectious Disease | 13 | 31 | 34 | 17 | 41 | 33 | 36 | 22 | 227 |
| Notice of Builder | 44 | 115 | 47 | 27 | 43 | 52 | 56 | 30 | 414 |
| Ref. T.B. Disp | 2 | 2 | – | – | 3 | 1 | 1 | – | 9 |
| Factory (Power) | 9 | 2 | 6 | 3 | 11 | 3 | – | 16 | 50 |
| Factory (Non-Power) | 1 | – | 1 | – | 1 | 2 | – | 2 | 7 |
| Food Premises | 40 | 10 | 35 | 30 | 44 | 20 | 29 | 23 | 231 |
| Butcher's Premises | 4 | – | 1 | – | 19 | 1 | 2 | – | 27 |
| Ice Cream Premises | 10 | – | – | – | 7 | 5 | 10 | 3 | 35 |
| Milk Premises | 10 | 1 | – | – | 3 | 2 | 4 | 2 | 22 |
| Bakehouses | 7 | – | 1 | – | 4 | 2 | 1 | – | 16 |
| Fish Premises | 13 | 1 | 6 | 3 | 15 | 6 | 10 | 2 | 56 |
| Offensive Trades | – | – | 13 | – | – | – | – | – | 13 |
| Outworkers | – | – | – | – | 6 | 3 | 14 | 1 | 24 |
| Comm. Lodg. Houses | – | – | 2 | – | – | – | – | – | 2 |
| Shops Act Inspections | 66 | 1 | – | 2 | 43 | 21 | 25 | 7 | 165 |
| Special Housing Inspections | 11 | 57 | 68 | 70 | 43 | 45 | 38 | 65 | 397 |
| Pet Animal Act' Inspections | – | 1 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 4 | – | – | 10 |
| Miscellaneous | 155 | 173 | 138 | 108 | 261 | 157 | 117 | 102 | 1,211 |
| Total | 556 | 677 | 587 | 565 | 712 | 605 | 655 | 747 | 5,104 |
| Re-Inspections, Calls, etc. | 2,784 | 4,245 | 2,759 | 1,644 | 2,837 | 2,964 | 17,233 | ||
| Notices Served—Public Health (London) Act, 1936 Intimation | 106 | 204 | 172 | 229 | 66 | 128 | 166 | 327 | 1,398 |
| Statutory | 18 | 24 | 89 | 106 | 19 | 68 | 85 | 199 | 608 |
| Section 40 | – | – | – | – | – | – | 1 | – | 1 |
| Section 105 | 18 | 6 | 7 | 22 | 5 | 17 | 22 | 20 | 117 |
| Premises in Respect of Which Notices were Completed | 148 | 220 | 186 | 270 | 86 | 167 | 154 | 303 | 1,534 |
| Premises in Respect of Which Notices were Outstanding at the End of the Year | 28 | 34 | 43 | 85 | 13 | 27 | 21 | 55 | 306 |