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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

St Pancras 1959

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for St. Pancras, Metropolitan Borough]

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SECTION 4
Sanitary Circumstances

Table: Visits by District Public Health Inspectors during 1959

Visits by District Public Health Inspectors during 1959

Complaints received3,190
Visits
Complaints Investigated - Whole house inspections270*
Whole house re-inspections32
Part of house inspections2,929
Part of house re-inspections8,322
House to House Inspections - Inspections132*
Re-inspections32
Infectious Disease -Investigations445
Inspection of premises85*
Re—inspections18
Drainage - (d) Under Notice. Plans, Supervision, etc.2,172
(b) Voluntary5,368
(c) New Building2,979
(d) Tested - (i) After infectious disease1
(ii) For other reasons481
Smoke Observations79
Rent Act, 1957466
Prevention of Damage by Pests Act, 1949293
Inspections re Closing or Demolition Orders1,278

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* Recorded as house-to-house inspections
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