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 1944
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Wimbledon]
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| Reason of Visit | No. |
|---|---|
| Infectious Diseases | 712 |
| House Inspections | 3,194 |
| Inspections under Housing Acts, 1935 | |
| House to House Inspections | 721 |
| Rent Act Inspections | |
| Houses Let in Lodgings Inspections | 215 |
| Inspection of Factories, Workshops, Workplaces and Outworkers' premises | 180 |
| Dairies and Cowsheds Inspections | 40 |
| Inspections under Shops Acts | 27 |
| Application of Tests to Drains | 76 |
| Inspections under Diseases of Animals' Acts | - |
| Obtaining Samples of Foods and Drugs | |
| Miscellaneous (including Inspections of Food, slaughterhouses, mews, stables, caravans, Petroleum Acts, water supply, piggeries, mosquitoes, etc.) | 6,632 |
| 12,049 |
Notices Served. - One thousand five hundred and twenty-seven
preliminary notices or intimations were served during the year.
It was found necessary to serve two hundred and fifty-four Statutory
Notices.
House Inspection,, - The following table gives a summary of the nuisances abated and the sanitary improvements carried out, together with the defects remedied, as a result of house to house inspection under the supervision of the Sanitary Inspectors:-
| Accumalations removed | 22 |
| Cisterns provided | 2 |
| Cisterns repaired, cleansed or covered | 26 |
| Drains, new, Drovided | 12 |
| Drainage systems made water-tight by patent process | – |
| Drains, repaired or altered | 21 |
| Drains, stoppages removed | 39 |
| Dustbins provided | 133 |
| Flushing cisterns, now, provided | 2 |
| Flushing cisterns, repaired | 47 |
| Manure receptacles provided | 2 |
| Rain-water pipes disconnented | 1 |
| Roofs repaired | 112 |
| Rooms stripped and cleansed | 188 |
| Verminous rooms cleased | 36 |
| Soilpipes, new, provided | 1 |
| Soilpipes, repaired or altered | 7 |
| Vent pipes, new, provided | - |
| Vent pipes, repaired or altered | 8 |
| Waste pipes, new, provided | 3 |
| Waste pipes, repaired, disconnected or trapped | 14 |
| Water-closets, new, provided | 19 |
| Water-closets,repaired or ventilated | 9 |
| Water services restored | 17 |
| Water supply direct from main | 11 |
| Yards paved | 6 |
| Yards repaired | 4 |
| Guttering repaired | 78 |
| Floors ventilated | 3 |
| Nuisances from damp walls abated | 74 |
| Sinks provided | 6 |
| Other nuisances | 1,070 |
| Rooms disinfec6ted | 471 |
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