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
Sutton and Cheam 1938
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Sutton and Cheam]
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Number.
Water service pipes and cisterns repaired 5
Movable sanitary dustbins provided 81
Offal bins provided 4
Ranges and stoves provided or repaired 58
Hearths provided or repaired 5
Coppers provided or repaired 22
Slaughterhouses cleansed 1
"Rooms" in Butchers' Shops and Stores.
cleansed 14
Dairies, Food Shops and Ice Cream premises
cleansed 31
Proper Stores provided in Food premises 2
Refrigerators cleansed 4
Refrigerators provided 2
Food premises provided with Ventilation 4
Bakehouses, Restaurant Kitchens and Workrooms
limewashed 76
Manure Pits constructed 1
Nuisances from keeping of animals abated 9
Nuisances from smoke abated 2
Accumulations of refuse removed 80
Accumulations of manure removed 6
Offensive ditches cleansed 1
Miscellaneous 204
Infectious Disease, Disinfection, &c.
Rooms disinfected after Notifiable Infectious
Diseases 173
Rooms disinfected after Tuberculosis and other
Diseases 97
Smoke Abatement.
There are few chimneys attached to industrial
premises in this district.
Two instances of emission of grit and sooty particles
were dealt with by informal action.
17