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

Holborn 1949

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Holborn Borough]

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SECTION 4.
Sanitary Circumstances.

Table: Visits made by the Sanitary Inspectors during 1949. Public Health (London) Act, 1936. Number of Inspections.

Visits made by the Sanitary Inspectors during 1949. Public Health (London) Act, 1936. Number of Inspections.

Dwelling Houses504
Houses Let in Lodgings417
Common Lodging Houses6
Offices78
Rag and Bone Shops31
Smoke Observations146
Drainage Work and Testing2,783
Other Inspections1,740
Re-inspections of above2,310
Housing Act, 1936. Number of Inspections.
Houses12
Underground Rooms93
Overcrowding Visits189
Re-inspections of above6
Factories Act, 1937. Number of Inspections.
Factories with mechanical power84
Factories without mechanical power31
Firms employing outworkers1
Outworkers' Rooms15
Re-inspection of above143
Electrical Stations and Sites of Building Operations66
Food and Drugs Act, 1938. Number of Inspections.
Dairies and Milk Shops64
Ice Cream sale and storage127
Ice Cream manufacture107
Restaurants and Kitchens1,189
Bakehouses60
Butchers' Shops190
Fish Shops47
Fried Fish Shops80
Other Food Shops417