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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
Islington 1927
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Islington Borough]
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63 1927
| Districts. | Totals | ||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | ||||
| House to House Inspections | 196 | 200 | *239 | 209 | 170 | 217 | 132 | 80 | 376 | 226 | 242 | 283 | 167 | 202 | 2939 | ||
| Other premises inspected | 272 | 266 | 271 | 581 | 260 | 268 | 276 | 338 | 287 | 377 | 481 | 355 | 359 | 676 | 398 | ||
| Re-inspections, Calls made, etc. | 2551 | 2583 | 3296 | 3839 | 2098 | 3574 | 2713 | 3083 | 4125 | 3200 | 3553 | 3555 | 3893 | 2374 | 44437 | ||
| Ice Cream Factories inspected | - | 1 | 26 | - | - | 21 | - | 1 | 18 | 1 | 5 | 2 | 3 | - | 78 | ||
| Dairies and Milkshops „ | 5 | 44 | 110 | 69 | 1ll | 88 | 93 | 73 | 74 | 57 | 58 | 41 | 46 | 31 | 900 | ||
| Stables | 25 | 4 | 12 | 2 | 143 | 5 | 5 | - | 3 | 7 | - | - | 1 | 3 | 210 | ||
| Yards | 107 | 77 | 164 | 33 | 389 | 11 | 193 | 12 | 35 | 54 | - | 9 | 19 | 15 | 1118 | ||
| Manure Depots „ | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 2 | - | - | - | - | - | 7 | ||
| Vacant land, Passages and Courts inspected | 20 | 6 | 1 | 99 | 1 | 44 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 1 | - | 2 | 184 | |||
| Urinals attached to P.H.'s inspected | _- | 56 | 85 | 12 | 20 | 118 | 96 | - | 14 | 36 | 1 | 1 | - | 209 | 648 | ||
| Premises (re Certificate Customs and Inland Revenue Acts) in spacted | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 5 | - | - | - | - | - | - | 5 | ||
| Premises (re Water Certificates) inspected | - | - | *91 | - | - | - | 3 | 5 | - | - | - | - | - | 24 | 123 | ||
| Visits re Sale of Food and Drugs Acts | - | - | h.toh | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | ||
| Smoke observations | 2 | 22 | 12 | 8 | 8 | 5 | 18 | 1 | 112 | 2 | 6 | 9 | 16 | 13 | 232 | ||
| Shops, Stalls and Markets (Saturday evening) | 4 | 4 | 4 | 5 | 4 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 5 | 3 | 4 | 3 | 50 | ||
| Total Inspections and Calls | 3183 | 3263 | 4 11 | 4764 | 3310 | 4380 | 3585 | 3642 | 5244 | 3945 | 4230 | 4580 | 4547 | 3415 | 56399 | ||
| Notices Served. | |||||||||||||||||
| Intimation | Public Health (London) Act. 1891 | 194 | 254 | 262 | 554 | 70 | 347 | 244 | 282 | 518 | 397 | 385 | 595 | 273 | 273 | 4648 | |
| Housing &T.P. Act | - | - | - | 1 | - | - | - | - | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | 2 | ||
| Ice Cream Shops | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 4 | ||
| Milk shop & Dairies | - | - | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | - | - | 7 | - | - | - | - | - | 12 | ||
| Statutory | Public Health (London) Act, 1891 | 16 | 19 | 23 | 54 | 8 | 49 | 31 | 24 | 89 | 71 | 20 | 56 | 28 | 25 | 513 | |
| Housing Act, 1925 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | ||
| Improvements. | |||||||||||||||||
| Drains— Constructed | 2 | - | - | - | 2 | - | - | - | - | - | - | 3 | 1 | - | 8 | ||
| Re-constructed | 10 | 19 | 8 | 1 | 4 | 2 | 3 | 8 | 4 | 10 | 1 | 8 | 1 | 3 | 82 | ||
| Repaired | 17 | 14 | 24 | 40 | 7 | 41 | 21 | 15 | 14 | 34 | 46 | 39 | 17 | 16 | 345 | ||
| Ventilated | 7 | 18 | 9 | 12 | 5 | 7 | 6 | 6 | 4 | 7 | 2 | 13 | 3 | - | 99 | ||
| Gully and other traps fixed | 54 | 81 | 30 | 15 | 26 | 27 | 15 | 37 | 35 | 52 | 11 | 22 | 1 | 3 | 409 | ||
| urinals— | |||||||||||||||||
| Water supply—cleansed | - | 1 | 7 | 1 | - | 4 | 1 | - | 5 | 2 | 1 | 1 | - | 2 | 25 | ||
| Cesspools—Abolished | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | ||
| Vater Closets— | |||||||||||||||||
| W.C. erected with pan, trap and Water Supply | 3 | 3 | - | - | 2 | 2 | - | - | 3 | 2 | - | 4 | 1 | 3 | 27 | ||
| Pan and trap only provided | 21 | 46 | 22 | 43 | 13 | 8 | 25 | 31 | 22 | 36 | 50 | 30 | 5 | 20 | 372 | ||
| Flushing apparatus repaired | 24 | 30 | 20 | 58 | - | 27 | 24 | 25 | 37 | 20 | 58 | 59 | 16 | 18 | 416 | ||
| Ventilated | - | 1 | - | -_ | 1 | 1 | - | 1 | 1 | 32 | 2 | 1 | - | - | 10 | ||
| Walls, etc . cleansed | 11 | 10 | 8 | 29 | 4 | 7 | 26 | 4 | 42 | 38 | 85 | 29 | 16 | 5 | 314 | ||
| Position altered | - | - | 3 | 4 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 7 | ||
| Dust Bins | Provided | 92 | 106 | 52 | 231 | 8 | 82 | 180 | 143 | 185 | 124 | 92 | 261 | 103 | 79 | 1738 | |
| Repaired | - | - | - | 2 | - | - | - | - | 3 | - | 1 | - | - | - | 6 | ||
| Areas | Constructed | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | |
| Paved | 1 | 1 | - | 5 | 2 | 3 | 8 | 2 | 2 | 11 | - | 6 | - | - | 41 | ||
| Yards | Paved | 3 | - | -_- | - | - | - | 1 | 3 | - | - | - | - | - | - | 7 | |
| Repaved | 22 | 24 | 22 | 89 | 5 | 17 | 18 | 11 | 31 | 37 | 11 | 461 | 2 | 7 | 342 | ||
| Sinks | Provided | 11 | 21 | 9 | 3 | 6 | 2 | 4 | 7 | 21 | 31 | 17 | 8 | - | 3 | 143 | |
| Waste pipe repaired | 19 | 31 | 31 | 34 | 9 | 17 | 18 | 15 | 31 | 59 | 15 | 26 | 8 | 12 | 325 | ||
| Domestic Water Supply— | |||||||||||||||||
| Cisterns Provided | -_ | - | 1 | - | - | - | -_ | - | - | - | 1 | 1 | - | - | 3 | ||
| Cisterns repaired aid cleansed | 6 | 13 | 16 | 28 | 4 | 8 | 14 | - | 20 | 5 | 7 | 21 | 2 | 3 | 149 | ||
| Water supply provided to dwelling house | 3 | 8 | - | - | - | 2 | - | 4 | 1 | - | 2 | 2 | - | - | 22 | ||
| Water supply provided to tenement house | 1 | 3 | - | 5 | 1 | 7 | - | 3 | 14 | 9 | - | 7 | 3 | 2 | 55 | ||
| Walls and ceiling of Rooms Cleansed and redecorated | 85 | 104 | 165 | 485 | 44 | 264 | 188 | 153 | 376 | 328 | 325 | 377 | 149 | 153 | 3196 | ||
| Carried forward | |||||||||||||||||