London's Pulse: Medical Officer of Health reports 1848-1972

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Lewisham 1911

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

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WORK OF WOMEN SANITARY INSPECTORS.

The following is a summary of work carried out by your Women Sanitary Inspectors:—

Miss JonesMiss Stevens.Total
To Factories71320
„ Workshops284267501
„ Workplaces152035
„ Laundries15476230
,, Outworkers' homes112139251
Infectious Diseases.—
To Phthisis homes103115218
Re Phthisis deaths383770
„ Chicken-pox144054
„ Measles305353658
„ Puerperal fever231437
,, School Notifications182190372
„ Ophthalmia Neonatorum151530
„ Polio-Myelitis11
To Schools5467121
Other Visits.—
On complaint from residents182038
To Selected homes from which births were notified5755501125
Investigations re Infant mortality129127256
Re-visits and re-inspections180109289
Miscellaneous inquiries173855
Total217021914361
Nuisances, Defects, &c.—
Abstract not affixed in workshops101121
Overcrowding of Workshops134
Total number of nuisances found178142320
Notices, &c.—
Intimation notices served13097227
Statutory notices served182543