Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Holborn Borough]
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SECTION 4.
Sanitary Circumstances. Visits made by the Public Health Inspectors during 1959.
Public Health (London) Act, 1936 | Number of Inspections |
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Dwelling Houses | 269 |
Houses Let in Lodgings | 44 |
Common Lodging Houses | 2 |
Offices | 19 |
Rag and Bone Shops | 21 |
Drainage Work and Testing | 3,688 |
Noise Nuisance Visits | 30 |
Other Inspections | 672 |
Re-inspections of above | 730 |
Housing Acts, 1957 and 1959 | Number of Inspections |
Houses | 26 |
Underground Rooms | 23 |
Overcrowding Visits | 15 |
Re-inspections of above | 11 |
Factories Acts, 1937—1959 | Number of Inspections |
Power Factories | 132 |
Re-inspections of above | 37 |
Non-Power Factories | 19 |
Re-inspections of above | 1 |
Outworkers' Rooms | 11 |
Electrical Stations and Sites of Building Operations | 141 |
Outworkers' Registers | 3 |
Food and Drugs Act, 1955 | Number of Inspections |
Dairies and Milk Shops | 34 |
Ice Cream manufacture | 3 |
Ice Cream sale and storage | 43 |
Restaurants and Kitchens | 797 |
Bakehouses | 9 |
Butchers' Shops | 15 |
Fish Shops | 5 |
Fried Fish Shops | 5 |
Other Food Shops | 257 |
Market Streets | 66 |
Licensed Premises | 86 |
Sampling | 368 |
Unsound Food | 156 |
Re-inspections of above | 205 |