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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 1954
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Deptford Borough]
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TABLE II Summary of Sanitary Work Carrid Out During the Year 1954
| Districts | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | Total | |
| Primary Inspections | I | ||||||||
| Complaints | 203 | 277 | 236 | 256 | 169 | 238 | 321 | 486 | 2,186 |
| Infectious Disease | 14 | 14 | 28 | 15 | 31 | 63 | 35 | 22 | 222 |
| Notice of Builder | 60 | 98 | 61 | 35 | 58 | 71 | 98 | 34 | 515 |
| Ref. T.B. Disp. | 1 | 1 | – | 1 | – | – | – | 1 | 4 |
| Factory (Power) | 8 | 4 | 21 | 23 | 22 | 6 | 15 | 4 | 103 |
| Factory (Non-Power) | 1 | – | 2 | 7 | 8 | 1 | 5 | – | 24 |
| Food Premises | 53 | 12 | 34 | 70 | 46 | 29 | 46 | 11 | 301 |
| Butcher's Premises | 9 | 1 | 8 | 14 | 27 | 2 | 8 | 2 | 71 |
| Ice Cream Premises | 20 | 2 | 5 | 6 | 8 | 5 | 10 | 5 | 61 |
| Milk Premises | 9 | 8 | 4 | 8 | 1 | 3 | 11 | 2 | 46 |
| Bakehouses | 5 | – | 3 | 6 | – | 3 | 4 | 1 | 22 |
| Fish Premises | 12 | – | 3 | 5 | 16 | 7 | 6 | – | 49 |
| Offensive Trades | – | – | 7 | – | – | – | – | – | 7 |
| Comm. Lodg. Houses | – | – | 6 | – | 13 | – | – | – | 6 |
| Outworkers | 2 | 4 | 6 | 1 | 13 | 4 | 12 | – | 36 |
| Shops Act Inspections | 75 | 20 | 21 | 54 | 58 | 27 | 58 | 10 | 323 |
| Special Housing Inspections | 28 | 20 | 63 | 63 | 28 | 31 | 29 | 70 | 332 |
| Pharmacy & Poisons Act Inspections | 2 | – | 1 | 3 | – | 1 | – | – | 7 |
| Pet Animal Act Inspections | 1 | 1 | 8 | 1 | – | 1 | – | – | 12 |
| Housing Repairs and Rents Act Inspections | 3 | 4 | 25 | 4 | 5 | 10 | 14 | 2 | 67 |
| Miscellaneous | 138 | 66 | 128 | 103 | 244 | 197 | 264 | 147 | 1,287 |
| Total | 644 | 532 | 664 | 675 | 734 | 699 | 936 | 797 | 5,681 |
| Re-Inspections, Calls, etc. | 2,601 | 4,345 | 1,446 | 2,081 | 1,425 | 737 | 2,416 | 2,553 | 17,604 |
| Notices Served—Public Health (London) Act, 1936 Intimation | 167 | 216 | 213 | 184 | 56 | 102 | 175 | 353 | 1,466 |
| Statutory | 59 | 23 | 88 | 83 | 15 | 27 | 69 | 187 | 551 |
| Section 40 | 3 | 8 | – | – | 6 | 1 | 2 | – | 20 |
| Section 105 | 16 | 7 | 10 | 10 | 2 | 13 | 14 | 18 | 90 |
| London County Council (General Powers) Act, 1954 Section 12 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 2 | – | 2 | 2 | – | 12 |
| Premises in Respect of Which Notices were Completed | 116 | 206 | 186 | 213 | 54 | 114 | 154 | 377 | 1,420 |
| Premises in Respect of Which Notices were Outstanding at the End of the Year | 51 | 41 | 57 | 44 | 14 | 36 | 40 | 42 | 325 |