Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
Report for the year 1906 of the Medical Officer of Health
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TABLE VI.
Sanitary Inspectors' Work.—Inspections, &c.
Inspector Bennett. | Inspector Clark. | Inspector Larard. | Inspector Lovibond. | Whole Borough. | ||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Complaints | 61 | 100 | 87 | 17 | 265 | |
Inspections. | Infectious Diseases | 99 | 115 | 129 | 314 | 657 |
Dwelling Houses | 197 | 307 | 183 | 490 | 1177 | |
Lodging Houses | 348 | 192 | 446 | 411 | 1397 | |
Common Lodging Houses | 59 | 34 | 66 | — | 159 | |
Dairies, Cowsheds and Milkshops | 310 | 220 | 451 | — | 881 | |
Ice Cream—Manufacture or Storage | 3 | 16 | 120 | — | 139 | |
Slaughter-houses | — | 18 | — | — | 18 | |
Market Streets | 339 | 54 | 308 | 10 | 711 | |
Butcher 'Shops | 231 | 84 | 141 | 3 | 459 | |
Bakehouses | 90 | 107 | 74 | — | 271 | |
Laundries | 8 | — | 2 | 29 | 39 | |
Other Food Shops | 362 | 246 | 314 | 134 | 1056 | |
Other Workshops | 282 | 109 | 97 | 92 | 580 | |
Out-Workers' Rooms and Registers | 30 | 15 | 41 | 166 | 252 | |
Workplaces | 31 | 21 | 95 | 2 | 149 | |
Factories | 29 | 8 | 63 | 36 | 136 | |
Schools | — | — | 1 | — | 1 | |
Smoke Shafts | 14 | 15 | 22 | — | 51 | |
Urinals | 4 | 98 | 38 | — | 140 | |
Miscellaneous | 175 | 130 | 103 | 4 | 412 | |
Periodical Inspections | 866 | 1823 | 1041 | — | 3730* | |
Dust | 21 | 194 | 9 | 39 | 263 | |
Total Inspections | 3498 | 3806 | 3644 | 1730 | 12678 | |
No. of Re-Inspections | 1328 | 1552 | 1053 | 1185 | 5118 | |
Visits other than Inspections and Re-Inspections | 583 | 925 | 834 | 802 | 3144 | |
Total | 5409 | 6283 | 5531 | 3717 | 20940 |
* The majority of these are weekly inspections of Registered Lodging Houses.