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 Barnet UDC]
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default, specifying the works necessary to remedy the defects found, is
usually followed. It was found necessary to ask your authority to
serve sixty-four Statutory Notices, where persons failed to comply with
the preliminary notice, or the strict legal procedure was necessary in
the first instance.
SANITARY INSPECTION OF AREA.
The following is a list of the number and nature of visits and inspections:-
Visits | re: | Housing Acts | 706 |
Visits | re: | nuisance and sanitary defects | 907 |
Visits | re: | infectious diseases | 232 |
Visits | re: | Petroleum Acts | 178 |
Visits | re: | factories | 179 |
Visits | re: | outworkers' premises | 10 |
Visits | re: | food manufactories, cafes, etc | 373 |
Visits | re: | ice cream and sampling | 146 |
Visits | re: | overcrowding | 5 |
Visits | re: | aged and infirm persons | 129 |
Visits | to | inspect meat and other foods | 617 |
Visits | re: | schools | 10 |
Visits | re: | pollution of watercourses | 25 |
Visits | re: | Rent Acts | 84 |
Visits | re: | Smoke observations | 59 |
Visits | re: | Tents, Caravans and Sheds | 28 |
Visits | re: | Shops Acts | 115 |
Visits | re: | keeping of animals | 41 |
Visits | re: | Rodent Infestations | 2,138 |
Visits | re: | other infestations | 78 |
Miscellaneous visits | 102 |
NUMBER OP NOTICES SERVED DURING YEAR.
Number of Informal Notices | 146 |
Number of Statutory Notices | 64 |
Informal Notices complied with | 103 |
Statutory Notices complied with | 66 |
SANITARY WORK AND REPAIRS.
The following is a list of repairs effected as a result of informal and formal notices served.
Roofs repaired and made weatherproof | 57 |
Gutters, downspouts repaired or renewed | 65 |
Exterior brickwork repaired or repointed | 171 |
Walls, dampness remedied | 99 |
Chimney stacks and pots repaired or renewed | 20 |
Yard surfaces repaired or repaved | 18 |