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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
Bethnal Green 1905
Report on the sanitary condition and vital statistics during the year 1905
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APPENDIX A. PUBLIC HEALTH DEPARTMENT. Annual Return of Inspections and Particulars of Cases in Hand for the Year ended 31 st December. 1905.
| District. | Infectious Cases. | Complaints. | House to House Inspections. | Trades Inspections. | Re-inspections. | Milkshop Inspections. | Factory and Work-shop Inspections. | Outworkers' Homes Inspections. | Nuisances Abated. | Number of Cases in Hand. | Samples of Food Taken. | Ice Cream Shop Inspections. | Combined Drainage Inspections. | Unsound Food Seizures. | Smoke Nuisances-Premises under Observation. | Other Instructions or Work of Special Character. | Tenement Houses. | Police Court Attendances. | Total Visits for the Year. | Inspector. |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| A | 298 | 551 | 231 | 8 | 3227 | 133 | 80 | 469 | 749 | 84 | 98 | 42 | — | — | _ | 174 | 158 | 15 | 5371 | E. Richards. |
| B | 278 | 434 | 183 | 8 | 2733 | 45 | 233 | 441 | 681 | 80 | 88 | 67 | — | — | — | 434 | 196 | 17 | 5052 | H. F. Bridel. |
| C | 167 | 354 | 184 | 5 | 5879 | 417 | 274 | 239 | 423 | 81 | 102 | 29 | — | — | — | 141 | 199 | 16 | 7888 | F. T. Bare. |
| D | 199 | 358 | 94 | 3 | 3738 | 58 | 422 | 76 | 533 | 140 | 93 | 10 | — | — | — | 190 | 186 | 35 | 5334 | J. G. Weeks. |
| E | 385 | 407 | 165 | — | 2454 | 204 | 332 | 336 | 743 | 77 | 33 | 12 | — | — | — | 271 | 269 | — | 4835 | A. S. Henley. |
| F | 313 | 194 | 103 | 1 | 39°3 | 87 | 285 | 320 | 594 | 61 | 151 | 16 | — | — | — | 123 | 80 | 38 | 5425 | E. Ainley. |
| Combined Drainage, &c., Inspector | 3 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | - | - | — | 2118 | — | — | 96 | — | 4 | 2217 | I. R. Jones. | |
| Food and Market In-Inspector | — | 9 | — | 758 | — | 1 | — | — | — | 91 | — | — | 6 | 737 | 11 | — | 13 | 1522 | W. Rowsell. | |
| Totals | 1643 | 2307 | 960 | 783 | 21934 | 945 | 1626 | 1881 | 3723 | 523 | 656 | 176 | 2118 | 6 | 737 | 1440 | 1088 | 138 | 37644 | — |