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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

Chingford 1951

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Chingford]

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16.
Summary of Inspections
The total number of visits paid by the Sanitary Inspectors
and other personnel of the Health Department staff to various premises
for all purposes is summarised below, together with the number of
nuisances or defects found under specific headings.
The visits numbered 7,250 as compared with 6,852 in the
previous year; the defects dealt with numbered 919 as compared with
947 in 1950.

Table: TABLE 2.

TABLE 2.

Visits PaidNuisances or Defects found and dealt with
Housing Act, 1936
Inspections55339
Re-inspections re Notices served779
Re overcrowding12
On Complaint466384
Infectious Diseases90
Retail Pood Premises
Meat116
Fish43
Fried Fish19
General Provisions150
Other Food Shops13041
Restaurant and Other Food Pre paring Premises156
Ice Cream Premises21
Food Sampling
Ice Cream70
Milk13
Other Foods94
Drugs8
Factories20115
Bakehouses40
Dairies2
Pigstyes10
Re-visits re Notices served (p.H.Act)690
Other re-visits172
Rodent Control2513118
Shops Acts (Sanitary Conditions)25710
(Hours of Closing)162
(Young Persons Employment)126
Council Houses129
Collection and Disposal of Refuse
and Salvage153
Carried Forward6677907