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
Wimbledon 1931
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Wimbledon]
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| Reason of Visit | No. |
|---|---|
| Infectious Diseases | 754 |
| House Inspections | 2,749 |
| House to House Inspections | 1,783 |
| Rent Act Inspections | 62 |
| Houses Let in Lodgings; Inspections | 210 |
| Inspection of Factories, Workshops, Workplaces and Out-workers' Premises | 322 |
| Common Lodging Houses; Inspections | 6 |
| Dairies and Cowsheds; Inspections | 37 |
| Inspections under Shop Acts | 719 |
| Application of Tests to Drains | 149 |
| Inspections under Diseases of Animals Acts | 6 |
| Obtaining Samples of Foods and Drugs | 4 |
| Miscellaneous (including Inspections of food, slaughter-houses, mews, stables, caravans, Petroleum Acts, water supply, piggeries, mosquitoes, etc.) | 1,930 |
| 8,731 |
Eight hundred and sixty two preliminary or informal notices
were served in respect of eight hundred and forty houses.
One hundred and sixteen statutory notices were served in
respect of ninety-seven houses.
The necessary work was executed in all but eighty-one cases,
which were not completed by the end of the year. In sixty-four
of these, the work was actually in hand at the close of the year.
Table III. gives a summary of the nuisances abated, and
improvements carried out under the supervision of the Sanitary
Staff of the Public Health Department.
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