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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
Poplar 1934
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Poplar, Metropolitan Borough]
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Report of the Inspector for Houses Divided into Separate Tenements, etc.
Report of the Inspector for Houses Divided into Separate Tenements, etc.
| (a) Houses divided into separate Tenements, etc. | |
| Number of Houses on Register at end of 1933 | 186 |
| ,, ,, removed from Register during 1934 | 8 |
| 178 | |
| „ registered during 1934 | 64 |
| ,, ,, on Register at end of 1934 | 242 |
| Visits for registration purposes | 219 |
| Declarations, for information, sent out | — |
| ,, with information, returned | — |
| Rooms measured, etc. | 23 |
| Houses registered | 64 |
| Notices sent out, re above | 31 |
| Inspections: | |
| 33 | |
| (b) First annual inspections | 137 |
| (c) Other routine inspections | 94 |
| 49 | |
| 18 | |
| Re-inspections | 529 |
| Miscellaneous visits, enquiries, etc. | 449 |
| Number of informal notices served | 154 |
| ,, ,, ,, complied with | 91 |
| ,, Notices served | 74 |
| ,, ,, complied with | 29 |
| ,, Final Notices served | 22 |
| ,, cases in which legal proceedings were taken | 2 |
| Work done as a result of Final Notice or legal proceedings, number of cases | 21 |
| Number of rooms cleansed and freed from vermin | 95 |
| Overcrowding, cases discovered | 9 |
| ,, ,, abated | 4 |
| Mixed sleeping, cases discovered | 3 |
| ,, ,, abated | 1 |