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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
Lambeth 1913
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Lambeth, Metropolitan Borough of]
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SUMMARY OF WORK DONE BY THE MALE
SANITARY INSPECTORS DURING 1913.
Inspections 8309
Re-inspections 65316
Complaints attended to 5081
Cases of Infectious Disease notified 3531
Cases of Non-Notifiable Diseases Dealt with 4741
Rooms disinfected . 8098
Bedding, etc., disinfected 5975
Bedding, etc., destroyed 80
Drains tested (with chemical, water or both) 8461
Sanitary Works compleled 5397
Plans of drainage reconstructions received and approved
302
Premises the Drains of which have been totally or
partly reconstructed 384
Samples of Food and Drugs submitted to Analyst 1855
Notices—
Sanitary Work (Preliminary or Intimation 7121
and Statutory 3705) 10826
Infectious Diseases (Public Health Act, 1891). 3531
Metropolis Local Management Acts . 40
Sanitary Nuisances abated—
(a) Structural 9167
(b) Non-Structural 5154
Summonses issued—
Public Health Act 6
Food and Drugs Acts 54
Convictions obtained—
Public Health Act 3
Food and Drugs Acts 43
Vide also Section of Report dealing with the Housing, Town
Planning &c., Act, 1909.