Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Westminster, City of]
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House to House Inspection. During the year 432 properties, involving 508 dwellings, were inspected. Of these properties 225 were residential, 85 part residential, 116 business premises and 6 bombed, derelict, &c , buildings.
Primary inspections | 424 |
Re-inspections | 3,025 |
Public Health (London) Act, 1936 | 161 |
London County Council (Drainage) Bylaws, 1934 | 1 |
Defective roofs | 21 |
Dampness | 56 |
Dirty, defective, dilapidated internally | 145 |
Defective drainage | 21 |
Verminous | 1 |
Insufficient water supply | 8 |
Families overcrowded | 8 |
Factories, Workplaces, Shops and Other Premises (other than Food Premises).
Summary of Inspections. | Primary. | Re-inspections. |
---|---|---|
Factories—Power | 541 | 362 |
Factories—Non-power | 308 | 460 |
Workplaces, &c | 1,202 | 2,397 |
Shops (other than food) | 242 | 282 |
2,293 | 3,501 | |
Complaint | 311 | 151 |
Routine | 1,013 | 425 |
Infectious disease | 146 | 10 |
Building licences and permits | 21 | 2 |
Drainage—voluntary | 452 | 2,173 |
Drainage—under notice | — | 1 |
Sanitary defects under notice | — | 502 |
Outworkers | 44 | 171 |
Other reasons | 306 | 66 |
2,293 | 3,501 |