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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

Lewisham 1946

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

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SECTION "C" - SANTARY CIRCUMSTANCES OF TIE AREA

Table: The following table shows a summary of the inspections etc. carried out by the sanitary and food inspectors during the year:-

The following table shows a summary of the inspections etc. carried out by the sanitary and food inspectors during the year:-

Cause of InspectionTotals
On complaint4822
Infectious disease1748
Notice from builder692
Smoke observation1
War damage complaint613
Water certificate306
Vermin, rats and mice164
Rent act certificates159
Landlord and tenant act certificates46
Building licences684
Rehousing cases4452
Housing act (overcrowding)556
Factories and workshops212
Butchers359
Registered food premises702
Bakehouses107
Fishmongers184
Provision merchants579
Greengrocers95
Wholesale meat depot62
Restaurants and eating houses260
Dairies63
Milk purveyors73
Ice cream premises225
Other food premises229
Pharmacy ana poisons act113
Shops Act471
Miscellaneous898
Market s45
Slaughterhouses10
Legal proceedings23
Reinspections5451
Intimation notices served3253
Statutory notices served635
Number of factories on register at 31.12.46960
Number of outworkers on register at 31.12.46400

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