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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
Shoreditch 1950
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Shoreditch]
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STATISTICAL REPORT OF HOUSING WORK
DONE BY THE SANITARY INSPECTORS, 1950,
Overcrowding
Number of new cases reported 152
Number of cases referred to L.C.C. 152
Number of cases relieved 177
Number of inspections and visits by Sanitary
Inspectors 505
Preferential treatment on health grounds
Number of cases investigated and reported on to
L.C.C. 160
Number of cases known to have been found
accommodation 26
Number of inspections and visits by Sanitary
Inspectors 419
Underground rooms
Number reported on 525
Number closed 13
Number where undertakings received 9
Number made to comply with regulations 9
General
Number of letters sent to County M.O.H. and
Valuer, L.C.C. 668
Number of letters sent to Shoreditch Borough
Council Housing Department 218