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Hornsey 1932
[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 | 439 |
| Special inspections | 981 |
| Re-inspections | 10,323 |
| Transfer to Council houses | 13 |
| Notifiable infectious diseases | 204 |
| Tuberculosis | 70 |
| Deaths | 93 |
| Verminous houses | 21 |
| Scabies | 1 |
| Shops Act | 678 |
| Factories, workshops and outworkers | 556 |
| Rent Restriction Act | 6 |
| Cinemas, etc. | 15 |
| Overcrowding | 182 |
| Petroleum stores | 182 |
| Rag Flock Act | 4 |
| Dairies and milkshops | 42 |
| Bakehouses | 42 |
| Slaughter-houses | 324 |
| Butchers' shops | 86 |
| Restaurant kitchens | 26 |
| Other food shops | 285 |
| Annual licences (Music and Dancing) | 47 |
| Stables | 43 |
| Urinals | 15 |
| Smoke observations | 11 |
| Refuse tips | 230 |
| Passages | 35 |
| Allotments | 4 |
| Drainage | 91 |
| Fee tests | 5 |
| House pests | 43 |