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 Holborn, Metropolitan Borough]
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Inspector Bennett. | Inspector Clark. | Inspector Larard. | Inspector Orange. | Whole Borough. | ||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Inspections. | Infectious Diseases | 71 | 118 | 81 | 250 | 620 |
Dwelling Houses | 197 | 378 | 169 | 94 | 838 | |
Lodging Houses | 389 | 227 | 238 | 144 | 998 | |
Common Lodging Houses | 3 | 18 | 30 | — | 51 | |
Dairies, Cowsheds and Milkshops | 171 | 239 | 349 | — | 759 | |
Ice Cream—Manufacture or Storage | 29 | 8 | 88 | — | 125 | |
Slaughter-house | — | 11 | — | — | 11 | |
Market Streets | 345 | 68 | 438 | — | 851 | |
Butchers' Shops | 554 | 205 | 286 | — | 1,045 | |
Bakehouses | 52 | 98 | 77 | — | 227 | |
Other Food Shops | 263 | 154 | 447 | 2 | 866 | |
Laundries | 3 | 1 | 1 | 7 | 12 | |
Other Workshops | 128 | 127 | 95 | 136 | 486 | |
Out-Workers' Roomsand Registers | 28 | 34 | 70 | 61 | 193 | |
Workplaces | 50 | 47 | 99 | 2 | 198 | |
Factories (excluding Bakehouses and Laundries) | 36 | 9 | 55 | 2 | 102 | |
Schools | — | — | — | — | — | |
Smoke shafts | 17 | 5 | 89 | — | 111 | |
Urinals | 1 | 90 | 10 | — | 101 | |
Miscellaneous | 151 | 37 | 107 | — | 295 | |
Periodical Inspections1 | 1,659 | 1,983 | 1,898 | 90 | 5,630 | |
Dust† | 73 | 154 | 56 | — | 283 | |
Mews | 2 | 131 | 16 | — | 149 | |
Maternity | — | — | — | 566 | 566 | |
Total Inspections | 4,222 | 4,142 | 4,699 | 1,354 | 14,417 | |
No. of Re-Inspections | 1,353 | 1,660 | 801 | 547 | 6,053 | |
Do. do. Maternity | — | — | — | 1,686 | ||
Visits other than Inspections and Re-Inspectious | 479 | 844 | 915 | 291 | 2,738 | |
Do. do. Maternity | — | — | 209 | |||
Total | 6,054 | 6,652 | 6,415 | 4,087 | 23,208 |
* The majority of these are weekly inspections of Registered Lodging Houses,
† A large number of inspections respecting the removal of Refuse is also made during
General and Periodical Inspections of houses.