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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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 visits made, the notices served and the sanitary improvements carried out are recorded in the following tables:—
Visits. | |
---|---|
House-to-house inspections | 382 |
Special inspections | 1,220 |
Re-inspections | 9,454 |
Transfer to Council houses | 5 |
Notifiable infectious diseases | 366 |
Tuberculosis | 77 |
Deaths | 120 |
Verminous houses | 10 |
Scabies | 1 |
Shops Act | 725 |
Factories, workshops and outworkers | 600 |
Rent Restriction Act | 7 |
Cinemas, etc. | 22 |
Overcrowding | 140 |
Petroleum stores | 298 |
Rag Flock Act | 4 |
Dairies and milkshops | 86 |
Bakehouses | 57 |
Slaughter-houses | 186 |
Butchers' shops | 95 |
Restaurant kitchens | 32 |
Other food shops | 204 |
Annual licences (Music and Dancing) | 32 |
Stables | 46 |
Urinals | 12 |
Smoke observations | 8 |
Refuse tips | 142 |
Passages | 20 |
Allotments | 5 |
Drainage | 43 |
Fee tests | 9 |