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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
Camberwell 1905
Sixth annual report of the Council of the Metropolitan Borough of Camberwell...
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XXXV.
Return of Work Performed in the Sanitary Department during the 52 weeks ending December, 1905.
| Description of Work. | Inspectors. | Totals. | |||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pointon. | Eagle. | Scudamore | Collins. | Heath. | Kerslake. | Morley. | Homer. | Farmer. | Dewey. | Perry. | Miss Bevan. | ||
| Complaints | 55 | 103 | 109 | 46 | 106 | 86 | 78 | 111 | 98 | 71 | 30 | 3 | 896 |
| Inspections arising from Complaints | 148 | 125 | 272 | 722 | 208 | 88 | 96 | 124 | 93 | 75 | 49 | 3 | 2003 |
| House-to-House Inspections | 827 | 653 | 395 | 111 | 866 | 319 | 265 | 438 | 161 | 452 | 409 | 0 | 4896 |
| Tenement Houses Inspected | 4 | 0 | 1 | 12 | 425 | 134 | 42 | 10 | 8 | 153 | 14 | 0 | 803 |
| Houses Let in Lodgings Inspected | 1 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 19 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 23 | 136 | 0 | 184 |
| New Buildings Inspected | 87 | 3 | 10 | 163 | 12 | 14 | 166 | 5 | 27 | 7 | 48 | 0 | 542 |
| Visits to New Buildings | 199 | 102 | 158 | 2360 | 418 | 200 | 915 | 0 | 571 | 142 | 423 | 0 | 5488 |
| No. of inspections of Slaughterhouses | 19 | 40 | 8 | 43 | 5 | 8 | 0 | 20 | 0 | 9 | 1 | 0 | 153 |
| Do. do. Bakehouses | 43 | 40 | 53 | 72 | 37 | 46 | 36 | 101 | 75 | 61 | 16 | 0 | 580 |
| Do. do. Cowhouses and Dairies | 34 | 78 | 10 | 94 | 8 | 7 | 4 | 1 | 6 | 39 | 6 | 0 | 287 |
| Do. do. Ice Cream Shops | 78 | 28 | 49 | 61 | 48 | 46 | 36 | 65 | 17 | 42 | 25 | 0 | 495 |
| Do. do. Milkshops | 150 | 77 | 185 | 90 | 133 | 114 | 103 | 228 | 86 | 108 | 56 | 0 | 1330 |
| Do. do. Railway Stations | 34 | 11 | 10 | 53 | 0 | 0 | 14 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 1 | 7 | 134 |
| Do. do. Workshops | 121 | 100 | 205 | 50 | 166 | 127 | 65 | 117 | 102 | 120 | 82 | 692 | 1947 |
| Do. do. Urinals, Public | 83 | 52 | 18 | 0 | 12 | 46 | 4 | 56 | 65 | 86 | 31 | 7 | 460 |
| Do. do. do. Private | 155 | 435 | 246 | 126 | 190 | 388 | 631 | 394 | 629 | 238 | 118 | 0 | 3550 |
| Do. do. Schools, Board | 68 | 70 | 29 | 33 | 7 | 17 | 25 | 57 | 60 | 30 | 27 | 0 | 423 |
| Do. do. do. Private | 55 | 7 | 5 | 66 | 8 | 21 | 14 | 15 | 28 | 5 | 3 | 0 | 227 |
| Do. do. Laundries | 10 | 11 | 7 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 8 | 15 | 25 | 10 | 0 | 156 | 248 |
| Do. do. re Overcrowding | 52 | 4 | 9 | 0 | 18 | 7 | 0 | 20 | 0 | 20 | 84 | 0 | 214 |
| Miscellaneous | 143 | 55 | 66 | 69 | 20 | 187 | 90 | 534 | 44 | 288 | 178 | 947 | 2621 |
| Re-Inspections | 3257 | 4542 | 3405 | 3225 | 3332 | 4160 | 3402 | 4260 | 4109 | 2780 | 2370 | 76 | 38918 |
| No. of Infected Houses | 152 | 130 | 247 | 77 | 193 | 125 | 178 | 262 | 190 | 142 | 85 | 38 | 1825 |
| Do. do. Re-visited | 152 | 43 | 127 | 164 | 74 | 49 | 63 | 133 | 112 | 82 | 71 | 0 | 1070 |
| Measles | 157 | 80 | 89 | 22 | 171 | 71 | 52 | 148 | 66 | 78 | 47 | 0 | 981 |
| Intimations served under P.H. Act | 391 | 737 | 423 | 257 | 680 | 528 | 360 | 270 | 362 | 508 | 260 | 31 | 4807 |
| Statutory Notices do. do. | 88 | 323 | 73 | 77 | 135 | 133 | 100 | 20 | 84 | 107 | 35 | 3 | 1178 |
| Notices re Houses Let in Lodgings | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 42 | 219 | 0 | 261 |
| Summonses under the P.H. Act | 4 | 10 | 4 | 3 | 29 | 15 | 3 | 6 | 8 | 10 | 3 | 0 | 95 |
| Smallpox Contacts | 1 | 4 | 10 | 30 | 55 | 77 | 13 | 8 | 2 | 4 | 4 | 0 | 208 |
| Totals | 6568 | 7863 | 6228 | 8027 | 7358 | 7035 | 6763 | 7418 | 7034 | 5736 | 4831 | 1963 | 76824 |