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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

Southwark 1909

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Southwark, Borough of]

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Table: Table 64. Summary of Original Inspections, &c., made during 1909 and in Five preceding Years, 1904.1908.

Table 64. Summary of Original Inspections, &c., made during 1909 and in Five preceding Years, 1904.1908.

Year.Complaints (including houses in which deaths have occurred).House to House.Infectious Diseases.Factories, Workshops and Workplaces.
Number of Inspections made.Number of drains tested.Number of Reinspections made.Number of Inspections made.Number of drains tested.Number of Reinspections madeNumber of Inspections made.Number of drains tested.Number of Reinspections made.Number of Inspections made.Number of Reinspections made.
1909149543595253701142629432638915071507208750024846
190494725557257921161552293929616091560328627472508
1905114246638277351464473674565014641379298828034115
190686804825294281344672794934722602260480533124265
1907100295362269561299168553411220302030353266156174
1908130994871265061132437183053015501550228566147113

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Note.—During the year 1909 Inspector Fisher (St. Paul's Ward) was away from his ward for four months
observing smoke from the chimney shafts on the river bank, and Inspector Nicholson (St. Peter's Ward)
was on the same work for two months. During the absence from their wards of these two inspectors,
the work was carried on by Inspector Rugg and Inspector Goodfellow respectively. The loss of
inspector power in regard to the four wards concerned, i.e., St. Mary's, St. Paul's, St. Peter's and All
Saints is equivalent to a diminution of 12 per cent. of the number of inspections usually made in the
year in these particular wards.