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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Inspections made during the year were as follows:—
Food Premises (See table on next page) | 935 |
Registration of Hawkers | 27 |
Notifiable Infectious Diseases | 310 |
Smallpox contacts | 20 |
Food Poisoning | 30 |
Scabies and Verminous Persons | 1 |
Dysentery | 276 |
Complaints | 1,782 |
Drainage | 482 |
Water Tests applied | 59 |
Smoke and Chemical Tests | 58 |
Rodent Control | 183 |
Surveys (Permitted numbers) | 62 |
Overcrowding conditions | 55 |
Building Licences | 66 |
Shops Acts | 1,262 |
Factories | 235 |
Outworkers | 340 |
Cinemas, Halls, etc., Renewal of Music and Dancing Licences | 30 |
Rent Restrictions Acts | 1 |
Moselle Pollution | 5,739 |
Smoke Observations | 32 |
Stables and Urinals | 1 |
Verminous conditions | 13 |
Pests | 28 |
Under Rag, Flock etc. Act, 1951 | 12 |
Other Reasons | 325 |
Housing Inspections (See table on page 50) | 2,188 |
Camps bourne Clearance Area | 31 |
Petroleum Stores | 154 |
Moselle Pollution | 1,287 |
For all other purposes | 6,933 |
TOTAL VISITS | 22,957 |