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 Hornsey, Borough of]
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Schools.—The sanitary arrangements at St. Mary's Infants'
School, Tottenham Lane, and St. Mary's Mixed School, High
Street, have been altered and modernised. At Crouch End,
Holy Innocents' and St. James's Schools the sanitary arrangements
are somewhat out of date and leave room for improvement.
At St. James's School, however, alterations and improvements
will be put in hand at an early date. The water and
sanitary arrangements at all the other schools are satisfactory.
Health Education.—Two thousand copies of " Better
Health," the organ of the Central Council for Health Education,
are distributed monthly to the upper scholars at the secondary,
elementary and private schools, the welfare centres, social institutions,
etc. These contain a detailed inset of public and medical
services in the Borough.
SANITARY INSPECTION OF THE AREA.
The following statement of the work of the Sanitary
Inspectors has been prepared by Mr. Henry Eastwood, Chief
Sanitary Inspector: —
The total number of visits during the year was 14,063 and
the number of defects or nuisances remedied 3,776.
At the end of the year defects or nuisances to the number
of 220 were either in hand or outstanding.
The visits made, the notices served and the sanitary improvements
carried out are recorded in the following tables: —
The visits made, the notices served and the sanitary improvements carried out are recorded in the following tables:—
Visits.
House-to-house inspections | 168 |
Special inspections | 1,313 |
Re-inspections | 8,293 |
Transfer to Council Houses | 19 |
Notifiable infectious diseases | 378 |
Other do. do. | 26 |
Tuberculosis | 62 |
Deaths | 151 |
Verminous houses | 8 |
Scabies | 1 |
Shops Act | 639 |
Factories, workshops and outworkers | 1,200 |
Bent Bestriction Act | 6 |
Cinemas, &c. | 34 |