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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 1957
[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 1957
| District | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | Total | ||
| Primary Inspections | |||||||||
| Complaints | 176 | 180 | 119 | 259 | 209 | 181 | 159 | 1,283 | |
| Infectious Disease | 25 | 9 | 9 | 15 | 17 | 14 | 9 | 98 | |
| Notice from Builder | 76 | 96 | 54 | 114 | 73 | 25 | 27 | 465 | |
| Rodent Control | 31 | 25 | 44 | 41 | 58 | 17 | 32 | 248 | |
| Factories (Power) | 4 | 24 | 10 | 43 | 48 | 36 | 8 | 173 | |
| Factories (Non-Power) | 3 | 4 | 7 | 9 | 8 | 10 | 6 | 47 | |
| Food Premises | 2 | 10 | 93 | 144 | 118 | 188 | 113 | 668 | |
| Butcher's Premises | — | 1 | 12 | 16 | 11 | 58 | 15 | 113 | |
| Ice Cream Premises | 2 | 1 | 30 | 29 | 24 | 15 | 21 | 122 | |
| Milk Premises | — | 1 | 8 | 14 | 14 | 3 | 13 | 53 | |
| Bakehouses | — | 1 | 3 | 2 | 7 | 6 | — | 19 | |
| Fish Premises | — | — | 4 | 11 | 2 | 4 | 7 | 28 | |
| Offensive Trades | — | — | — | — | 31 | — | — | 31 | |
| Comm. Lodg. Houses | — | — | — | — | 16 | — | — | 16 | |
| Outworkers.. | 32 | 11 | 2 | 73 | 9 | 8 | 20 | 155 | |
| Shops Act Inspections | 2 | 43 | 80 | 91 | 82 | 171 | 107 | 576 | |
| Special Housing Inspections | 5 | — | 1 | 1 | 12 | 6 | 1 | 26 | |
| Housing Repairs and Rents | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | ||
| Act 1954, Inspections | 6 | — | 1 | 1 | — | — | _ | 8 | |
| Rent Act 1954, Inspections | 19 | 20 | 10 | 30 | 22 | 17 | 32 | 150 | |
| Smoke Observations | — | 2 | — | 1 | 3 | — | 1 | 7 | |
| Hairdressers & Barber's Premises | — | 14 | 8 | 13 | 5 | 6 | — | 46 | |
| Pet Animals Act Inspections | — | — | 2 | — | 4 | 2 | — | 8 | |
| Pharmacy & Poisons Act | — | — | — | — | — | — | |||
| Inspections | 2 | 2 | 4 | 1 | 7 | 4 | 8 | 28 | |
| Miscellaneous | 514 | 170 | 214 | 233 | 128 | 155 | 125 | 1,539 | |
| Total | 899 | 614 | 715 | 1,141 | 908 | 926 | 704 | 5,907 | |
| Re-Inspections, Calls, etc | 1,906 | 3,803 | 1,036 | 2,932 | 3,215 | 2,253 | 1,360 | 16,505 | |
| Notices Served—Public Health (I.nndonl Act. 1936 | |||||||||
| Intimation | 90 | 126 | 70 | 152 | 121 | 131 | 157 | 847 | |
| Statutory | 26 | 21 | 15 | 63 | 60 | 32 | 39 | 256 | |
| London County Council (General Powers) Act, 1954 Section 12 | _ | 6 | 2 | 11 | 10 | 9 | 7 | 45 807 | |
| Premises in Respect of Which Notices were Completed | 93 | 126 | 58 | 141 | 115 | 163 | 111 | ||
| Premises in Respect of Which Notices were Outstanding at the End of the Year | 29 | 33 | 16 | 30 | 23 | 34 | 54 | 219 | |