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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 1908
Report on the sanitary condition and vital statistics during the year 1908 together with the report of the Chief Sanitary Inspector
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APPENDIX A. Total Number of Inspections and Particulars of Cases in Hand  for the Year ended 31st December, 1908.
| District. | Infectious Cases. | Complaints. | House to House Inspections. | Trades' Inspections. | Re-inspections. | Milkshop Inspections. | factory and Workshop Inspections. | Outworkers' Homes Inspections. | Tenement House Inspections. | New Buildings Inspections, | Ioe Cream Shop Inspections. | Combined Drainage Inspections. | Smoke Nuisances— Premises under Observation. | Other Inspections or work of Special Character | Number of Calls. | Unsound Food Seizures. | Samples of Food and Drugs taken. | Police Court Attendances. | Nuisances Abated. | Number of Cases in Hand. | Total Visits for the Week. | Inspector. |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| * A | 279 | 403 | 70 | ... | 3175 | 107 | 279 | 1021 | 240 | 1 | 13 | 56 | ... | 67 | 96 | ... | 95 | 14 | 866 | 45 | 5807 | E. Richards. |
| B | 197 | 188 | 24 | ... | 1850 | 93 | 156 | 835 | 189 | 19 | 20 | 57 | ... | 106 | 47 | ... | ... | 2 | 540 | 35 | 3781 | H. F. Bridel. |
| C | 269 | 377 | 518 | 36 | 2943 | 330 | 451 | 594 | 258 | ... | 62 | ... | ... | 198 | ... | ... | 116 | 12 | 905 | 40 | 6036 | F. T. Bare. |
| D | 210 | 243 | 52 | ... | 2658 | 146 | 476 | 192 | 297 | ... | 7 | ... | ... | 79 | 60 | ... | 84 | 26 | 644 | 30 | 4411 | J. G. Weeks. |
| E | 307 | 250 | 72 | ... | 2548 | 172 | 778 | 798 | 359 | 2 | 19 | ... | ... | 140 | 55 | 1 | 90 | 7 | 907 | 42 | 5500 | A. S. Henley. |
| F | 227 | 193 | 93 | ... | 3074 | 247 | 1055 | 733 | 51 | ... | 16 | ... | ... | 79 | 138 | 4 | 100 | 28 | 722 | 72 | 5906 | E. AINLEY. |
| Drainage and New Buildings | ... | ... | ... | ... | 826 | ... | ... | ... | ... | 2 | .. | 1336 | ... | ... | 70 | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | 2234 | I. R. Jones. |
| Markets | ... | 16 | ... | 935 | ... | 1 | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | 650 | ... | 1 | 8 | 164 | 36 | 3 | ... | 1603 | W. ROWSELL. |
| Totals | 1480 | 1670 | 829 | 971 | 17074 | 1096 | 3195 | 4173 | 1394 | 24 | 137 | 1449 | 650 | 669 | 467 | 13 | 649 | 125 | 4587 | 264 | 35278 | ... |
*Numbers of cases of Infection and Complaints investigated, are apparently excessive, owing to
Inspector Bridel's illness in earlier part of year, and Inspecctor Richards performing his duties in
connection with these matters