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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
Erith 1920
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Erith]
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Under the Erith Improvement Act, 1920, the Council
obtained power to specify the material of which sanitary
dustbins may be made, and the size of the same, and
have exercised this power.
(5) Sanitary Inspections of the District.
The following tables have been prepared by the Inspector of Nuisances, and summarise the work done during the year:—
| Houses visited for the detection of nuisances | 741 |
| Houses inspected under the Housing and Town Planning Act | 1030 |
| Slaughterhouses | 95 |
| Cowsheds, Dairies and Milkshops | 39 |
| Workshops | 67 |
| Outworkers' premises | 7 |
| Bakehouses | 33 |
| Offensive trades | 25 |
| Vans, tents and sheds | 127 |
| Complaints enquired into | 310 |
| 2474 | |
| Nuisances detected | 689 |
| Preliminary notices served to abate nuisances | 314 |
| Statutory notices served to abate nuisances | 84 |
| Nuisances abated Notices issued under the Factory and Workshops Act | 573 1 |
| Notices complied with | 1 |
| Notices issued to provide proper receptacles for house refuse | 304 |
| Notices complied with | 286 |
| Notices issued to provide sufficient drainage (Section 23, P.H. Act, 1875) | 11 |
| Notices complied with | 11 |
| Notices issued under the Cowsheds, Dairies and Milkshops Order | 1 |
| |Notices complied with | 1 |