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Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
Hornsey 1933
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Hornsey, Borough of]
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are generally acknowledged to be factors in securing for
the Metropolis and its surrounding districts an abundant supply
of pure water. He retired from office in 1933 and died later in
the year.
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 | 388 |
| Special inspections | 1,106 |
| Re-inspections | 9,124 |
| Transfer to Council houses | 2 |
| Notifiable infectious diseases | 285 |
| Tuberculosis | 53 |
| Deaths | 112 |
| Verminous houses | 137 |
| Scabies | 6 |
| Shops Act | 798 |
| Factories, workshops and outworkers | 548 |
| Rent Restriction Act | 22 |
| Cinemas, etc. | 19 |
| Overcrowding | 145 |
| Petroleum stores | 293 |
| Rag Mock Act | 4 |
| Dairies and milkshops | 90 |
| Bakehouses | 47 |
| Slaughter-houses | 198 |
| Butchers' shops | 70 |
| Restaurant kitchens | 40 |
| Other food shops | 296 |
| Annual licences (Music and Dancing) | 40 |
| Stables | 50 |
| Conveniences | 11 |
| Smoke observations | 22 |
| Refuse tips | 207 |
| Passages | 348 |
| Allotments | 6 |
| Drainage | 502 |
| Drainage Fee tests | 9 |