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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

Woolwich 1964

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Woolwich]

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PUBLIC HEALTH ADMINISTRATION
PUBLIC HEALTH INSPECTIONS OF THE AREA
The Public Health Inspectors carried out 32,430 Inspections,
including reinspections, during 1964. The nature of the
inspections is shown in Table No. 7. As a result of the inspections
made, 512 Intimation Notices and 274 Statutory Notices were served,

Table: TABLE NO.7 -INSPECTIONS

TABLE NO.7 -INSPECTIONS

Complaints investigated1,427Tents and Vans13
Complaints (reinspections)2,338Public Houses179
Outworkers premises180Theatres and Cinemas12
Houses re overcrowding40Hairdressers and Barbers76
New Houses re water supply706Houses re disinfectionor destruction of articles22
Houses re infectious diseases1,149
Houses re vermin Council housing applicants117Factories mechanicallypowered159
check re vermin1,087Factories non-mechanicallypowered55
Housing Act inspections288
Housing Act-Improvement Grants257Shops Act inspections1,055
Food Premises160
Houses re Certificates of Disrepair48Complaints re food47
Houses, visits with owners, builders, etc.266
Water sampling and testing23
Rodent Control980Houses re Slum Clearance and Redevelopment350
Atmospheric Pollution991
Houses re Smoke Control Areas2,866Pet Animals Premises59
Visits re insect and other pests585
Houses re Smoke Control Areas (reinspections)4,l60
Shops re Pharmacy and Poisons178
Men's lavatories42
Women's lavatories36Offices, Shops and Railway Premises Act, 1963 inspections382
Houses re choked drains241
Drainage inspections555
Miscellaneous visits4.108Non-effectual visits5,555