London's Pulse: Medical Officer of Health reports 1848-1972

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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

Wood Green 1948

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Wood Green]

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Table: Miscellaneous Items.

Miscellaneous Items.

Meat and Fish paste23 jarsPickles, etc.363 jars
Meat Pies211Fruit, Vegetables, etc.3 jars
Fish Cakes194Cake mixture, etc.183 pkts.
Coffee11 bottles.Cakes, etc.682
Cheese89 pkts.Eggs1,534

Table: (d)Inspection of Food Premises.The following visits have been made to food premises during the year, and where defects have been discovered the requisite steps have been taken to have them remedied.

(d)Inspection of Food Premises.

The following visits have been made to food premises during the year, and where defects have been discovered the requisite steps have been taken to have them remedied.

Butchers' shops190
Dairies and milk shops23
Fried fish shops18
Ice cream premises102
Stalls70
Other food premises221

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Rats and Mice (Destruction) Act, 1919.
1,293 premises have been inspected, and it was found necessary
to carry out treatment in 156 of these. Two thousand seven hundred
and fifty-six visits were made.
A maintenance treatment of the sewers was carried out in May
and June when 641 manholes were prebaited; 294 of these showed a
prebait take and were poison-baited.
A second treatment was carried out in November and December
when 306 of the 671 manholes prebaited showed a prebait take and
were then poison-baited.
As in past years the Public Health Department and the Borough
Engineer's Department co-operated in carrying through the sewer
treatment, the Borough Engineer supplying the men to do the work.