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 VII.—Return of Work Performed in the Sanitary Department during the 52 weeks ending December, 1903.
| Description of Work. | Inspectors. | ||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pointon. | Eagle. | Scudamore | Collins. | Heath. | Kerslake. | Morley. | Homer. | Farmer. | Dewey. | Perry. | Miss Bevan. | Totals | |
| Complaints | 92 | 95 | 131 | 32 | 82 | 81 | 103 | 179 | 114 | 106 | 66 | 2 | 1083 |
| Inspections arising from Complaints | 182 | 150 | 270 | 284 | 100 | 106 | 131 | 448 | 125 | 151 | 153 | 7 | 2107 |
| House-to-House Inspections | 1081 | 816 | 494 | 298 | 992 | 394 | 300 | 909 | 155 | 546 | 429 | 0 | 6414 |
| Tenement House Inspected | 48 | 11 | 32 | 25 | 334 | 99 | 18 | 3 | 91 | 207 | 57 | 0 | 925 |
| Houses Let in Lodgings Inspected | 5 | 0 | 2 | 5 | 0 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 55 | 173 | 0 | 247 |
| New Buildings inspected | 229 | 8 | 14 | 153 | 6 | 13 | 281 | 14 | 38 | 16 | 8 | 0 | 780 |
| Visits to New Buildings | 235 | 71 | 80 | 1857 | 40 | 369 | 891 | 13 | 838 | 137 | 72 | 0 | 4603 |
| No. of inspections of Slaughterhouses | 31 | 35 | 6 | 73 | 7 | 13 | 1 | 73 | 0 | 8 | 28 | 0 | 275 |
| Do. do. Bakehouses | 105 | 62 | 137 | 161 | 18 | 43 | 45 | 167 | 47 | 63 | 76 | 1 | 925 |
| Do. do. Cowhouses and Dairies | 40 | 89 | 16 | 140 | 19 | 5 | 2 | 29 | 9 | 46 | 3 | 0 | 398 |
| Do. do. Ice Cream Shops | 63 | 37 | 59 | 212 | 34 | 45 | 98 | 148 | 56 | 39 | 58 | 0 | 849 |
| Do. do. Milkshops | 185 | 163 | 218 | 182 | 159 | 173 | 289 | 279 | 115 | 138 | 118 | 0 | 2019 |
| Do. do. Railway Stations | 42 | 9 | 10 | 112 | 2 | 0 | 16 | 0 | 4 | 7 | 1 | 21 | 224 |
| Do. do. Workshops | 68 | 80 | 49 | 37 | 71 | 62 | 2 | 59 | 5 | 114 | 100 | 905 | 1552 |
| Do. do. Urinals, Public | 139 | 39 | 87 | 3 | 63 | 61 | 14 | 103 | 53 | 97 | 87 | 16 | 762 |
| Do. do. do. Private | 262 | 461 | 160 | 142 | 260 | 316 | 501 | 549 | 536 | 185 | 159 | 0 | 3531 |
| Do. do Schools, Board | 90 | 61 | 15 | 91 | 12 | 10 | 14 | 81 | 26 | 65 | 45 | 0 | 510 |
| Do. do. do. Private | 68 | 13 | 0 | 156 | 0 | 6 | 12 | 31 | 29 | 2 | 14 | 0 | 331 |
| Do. do. Laundries | 11 | 11 | 7 | 13 | 1 | 4 | 5 | 31 | 27 | 24 | 4 | 184 | 322 |
| Do. do. re Overcrowding | 56 | 11 | 7 | 2 | 8 | 16 | 13 | 13 | 0 | 20 | 106 | 8 | 260 |
| Miscellaneous | 108 | 74 | 44 | 100 | 84 | 822 | 41 | 216 | 1 | 87 | 220 | 744 | 2041 |
| Re-Inspections | 3640 | 5644 | 3621 | 3842 | 3835 | 4848 | 3239 | 3837 | 4517 | 3679 | 4350 | 137 | 45089 |
| No. of Infected Houses | 124 | 90 | 199 | 73 | 221 | 134 | 121 | 173 | 95 | 121 | 99 | 21 | 1471 |
| Do. do. Re-visited | 137 | 66 | 226 | 178 | 149 | 141 | 83 | 242 | 124 | 138 | 115 | 0 | 1599 |
| Measles | 178 | 74 | 53 | 69 | 210 | 175 | 88 | 227 | 59 | 113 | 59 | 3 | 1308 |
| Intimations served under P.H. Act | 536 | 1099 | 493 | 239 | 714 | 557 | 340 | 482 | 372 | 642 | 377 | 99 | 5830 |
| Statutory Notices do. do. | 67 | 232 | 109 | 85 | 229 | 194 | 70 | 33 | 142 | 161 | 83 | 9 | 1414 |
| Notices re Houses Let in Lodgings | 0 | 26 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 9 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 22 | 87 | 0 | 144 |
| Summonses under the P.H. Act | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Smallpox Contacts | 19 | 7 | 14 | 15 | 156 | 74 | 75 | 273 | 60 | 58 | 53 | 0 | 804 |
| TABLE B. | |||||||||||||
| Reconstruction of Old Drains Completed | 113 | 85 | 62 | 110 | 112 | 76 | 30 | 78 | 139 | 56 | 67 | 0 | 928 |