Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Camberwell.
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TABLE VIII.—Return of Work Performed in the Sanitary Department during the 52 weeks ending December, 1902.
| Description of Work. | Inspectors. | Totals. | ||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pointon. | Eagle. | Chadderton | Scudamore | Collins. | Heath. | Kerslake. | Morley. | Homer. | Farmer. | Dewey. | Perry. | Miss Bevan. | ||
| Complaints | 71 | 68 | 87 | 100 | 42 | 76 | 67 | 85 | 139 | 87 | 76 | 3 | 15 | 917 |
| Inspections arising from Complaints | 118 | 102 | 87 | 167 | 124 | 71 | 116 | 87 | 191 | 184 | 105 | 5 | 19 | 1376 |
| House-to-House Inspections | 534 | 520 | 526 | 401 | 248 | 751 | 661 | 383 | 534 | 749 | 583 | 78 | 0 | 5968 |
| Tenement Houses Inspected | 1 | 15 | 19 | 51 | 51 | 384 | 28 | 20 | 2 | 83 | 46 | 0 | 0 | 700 |
| Houses Let in Lodgings Inspected | 2 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 58 | 0 | 60 | 38 | 0 | 0 | 226 | 19 | 0 | 409 |
| New Buildings Inspected | 147 | 3 | 18 | 58 | 168 | 7 | 8 | 275 | 23 | 17 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 731 |
| Visits to New Buildings | 298 | 77 | 278 | 123 | 659 | 109 | 221 | 586 | 76 | 62 | 51 | 0 | 0 | 2540 |
| No. of inspections of Slaughterhouses | 28 | 31 | 0 | 5 | 62 | 5 | 10 | 0 | 53 | 10 | 13 | 3 | 0 | 220 |
| Do. do. Bakehouses | 95 | 33 | 38 | 20 | 104 | 8 | 22 | 10 | 56 | 14 | 28 | 10 | 0 | 438 |
| Do. do. Cowhouses and Dairies | 34 | 65 | 14 | 19 | 181 | 13 | 0 | 5 | 37 | 8 | 19 | 0 | 0 | 395 |
| Do. do. Ice Cream Shops | 29 | 8 | 13 | 25 | 85 | 3 | 4 | 8 | 41 | 7 | 18 | 1 | 0 | 242 |
| Do. do. Milkshops | 90 | 27 | 80 | 48 | 85 | 57 | 45 | 99 | 49 | 21 | 29 | 20 | 0 | 650 |
| Do. do. Railway Stations | 48 | 17 | 1 | 3 | 113 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 199 |
| Do. do. Workshops | 12 | 21 | 11 | 33 | 54 | 15 | 17 | 15 | 69 | 49 | 37 | 4 | 649 | 986 |
| Do. do. Urinals, Public | 101 | 38 | 36 | 7 | 0 | 48 | 25 | 0 | 111 | 123 | 54 | 6 | 8 | 557 |
| Do. do. do. Private | 137 | 246 | 131 | 83 | 93 | 318 | 171 | 174 | 258 | 516 | 89 | 21 | 0 | 2237 |
| Do. do. Schools, Board | 131 | 53 | 15 | 18 | 82 | 15 | 7 | 15 | 82 | 160 | 131 | 8 | 0 | 717 |
| Do. do. do. Private | 66 | 3 | 4 | 1 | 91 | 1 | 3 | 12 | 2 | 17 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 203 |
| Do. do. Laundries | 4 | 10 | 0 | 41 | 24 | 4 | 0 | 12 | 34 | 83 | 4 | 0 | 204 | 420 |
| Do. do. re Overcrowding | 32 | 23 | 4 | 22 | 44 | 12 | 17 | 28 | 19 | 19 | 35 | 2 | 17 | 274 |
| Miscellaneous | 24 | 6 | 0 | 21 | 69 | 31 | 44 | 25 | 153 | 1 | 82 | 23 | 483 | 962 |
| Re-Inspections | 5498 | 4265 | 3164 | 2885 | 3592 | 3255 | 3272 | 3350 | 3772 | 3709 | 3457 | 336 | 584 | 41139 |
| No. of Infected Houses | 290 | 260 | 179 | 384 | 99 | 361 | 279 | 193 | 299 | 316 | 208 | 19 | 10 | 2897 |
| Do. do. Re-visited | 47 | 160 | 118 | 483 | 116 | 292 | 55 | 130 | 277 | 455 | 307 | 32 | 0 | 2472 |
| Measles | 112 | 52 | 62 | 159 | 105 | 84 | 65 | 230 | 119 | 42 | 58 | 31 | 0 | 1119 |
| Intimations served under P.H. Act | 420 | 670 | 320 | 331 | 164 | 619 | 520 | 397 | 259 | 390 | 611 | 55 | 137 | 4893 |
| Statutory Notices do. do. | 37 | 170 | 19 | 105 | 83 | 136 | 163 | 76 | 27 | 173 | 177 | 21 | 16 | 1203 |
| Notices re Houses Let in Lodgings | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 15 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 471 | 1 | 0 | 488 |
| Summonses under the P.H. Act | 4 | 6 | 0 | 5 | 2 | 7 | 10 | 4 | 2 | 9 | 7 | 0 | 0 | .. |
| Smallpox Contacts | 462 | 1022 | 469 | 2231 | 540 | 1385 | 2033 | 1483 | 1069 | 1759 | 990 | 0 | 0 | 13443 |
| TABLE B. | ||||||||||||||
| Reconstruction of Old Drains Completed | 121 | 122 | 51 | 75 | 88 | 95 | 82 | 63 | 82 | 100 | 41 | 2 | 0 | 922 |