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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 1917
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Lambeth, Metropolitan Borough of]
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SANITARY INSPECTORIAL STAFF.
The Sanitary Inspectorial Staff consists of 12 district male
Sanitary Inspectors and 1 special male Sanitary Inspector for
Food and Drugs, 2 female Sanitary Inspectors (who also act as
part-time Health Visitors*), and 3 female Health Visitors. t
The work carried out during 1917 by these various officers is set
out in tabular form.
Summary of Work Carried Out by the Male Sanitary Inspectors During 1917.
| Inspections | 8357 |
| Re-inspections | 42587 |
| Complaints attended to | 2208 |
| Water Certificates issued | 14 |
| Revenue Act Certificates dealt with | 31 |
| Drains tested (with chemical, water or smoke test) | 3340 |
| Sanitary Works completed | 3995 |
| Plans of drainage reconstructions received | 98 |
| Premises the Drains of which have been totally or partly reconstructed | 115 |
| Samples of Food and Drugs taken | 1829 |
Notices-
| Public Health (London) Act, 1891 (Preliminary or In-timation 8767 and Statutory 3704) | 12471 |
| Metropolis Local Management Acts | 4 |
| Sanitary Nuisances abated— | |
| (a) Structural | 16103 |
| (b) Non-Structural | 4721 |
| Summonses issued— | |
| Public Health Act | 2 |
| Food and Drugs Acts | 40 |
| Convictions obtained— | |
| Public Health Act | 1 |
| Food and Drugs Acts | 33 |
N.B.—In addition to the above, the District Inspectors
carried out, during 1917, routine duties connected with the inspecting
of unsound and unwholesome food; the supervision of
bakehouses, slaughter-houses, cow-houses, dairies, milk shops
and milk stores, the market thoroughfares, outside urinals of
public-houses, smoke, the male public conveniences, factories and
workshops, and work places wherein males are employed, common
lodging-houses, offensive trades, effluvium nuisances, houses
let in lodgings, exempted tenements (Revenue Act), refuse and
* Re-arrangement of duties of the 2 female Sanitary Inspectors, who are
now designated " Female Sanitary Inspectors and Health Visitors," was
approved by the Local Government Board on February 9th. 1917.
† Miss Lillie Hoskin was appointed as an additional Health Visitor by the
Council on April 26th, 1917 (temporarily), and on October 18th, 1917
(permanently).