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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
Lambeth 1933
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Lambeth Borough]
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| Total | ||
| 27. | Effluvium nuisance : | |
| 48 | ||
| 11 | ||
| 28. | Lighting and Ventilation : defective | 12 |
| 29. | Manure: accumulation or deposit injurious to health | 22 |
| 30. | Overcrowding | 30 |
| 31. | Rats infestation: | |
| 29 | ||
| 143 | ||
| 32. | Refuse accumulations | 98 |
| 33. | Smoke Nuisance: | |
| 33 | ||
| 20 | ||
| 34. | Stagnant Water : accumulation | 25 |
| 35. | Underground Rooms: illegally occupied as a dwelling | 15 |
| 36. | Urinal: foul | 18 |
| 37. | Water Supply: | |
| 73 | ||
| 9 4,597 | ||
In addition, the District Sanitary Inspectors carried out during
1933 routine duties connected with the inspection of unsound and
unwholesome food, the supervision of bakehouses, slaughter-houses,
cow-houses, dairies, milk shops and milk stores, ice-creameries, the
market thoroughfares, outside urinals of public-houses, smoke
abatement, the male public conveniences, factories and workshops,
and workplaces wherein males are employed, common lodginghouses,
offensive trades, houses let in lodgings, refuse and manure
depots, etc.
A great number of visits have been paid by these Inspectors
in connection with the supervision of smallpox contacts, and also
to all the premises in which infectious diseases are reported to
have occurred. The opportunity afforded by such official notifications
is taken for an inspection of the sanitary state of the property
together with a test of the drains.