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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 1908
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Camberwell.
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RETURN OF WORK PERFORMED IN THE SANITARY DEPARTMENT DURING THE 53 WEEKS ENDING JANUARY 2nd, 1909.
| Description of Work. | Inspectors. | Totals. | |||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pointon. | Eagle. | Scudamore. | Collins. | Heath. | Kerslake. | Morley. | Homer. | Farmer. | Dewey. | Malins. | Miss Bevan. | ||
| Complaints | 68 | 86 | 127 | 50 | 109 | 106 | 110 | 105 | 78 | 81 | 44 | 4 | 968 |
| Inspections arising from complaints | 112 | 126 | 179 | 220 | 100 | 81 | 55 | 121 | 165 | 107 | 58 | 2 | 1,326 |
| House to house inspections | 512 | 619 | 379 | 189 | 637 | 403 | 635 | 349 | 346 | 484 | 685 | – | 5,238 |
| Tenement houses inspected | 6 | 9 | 17 | – | 238 | 54 | 85 | 18 | 17 | 198 | 66 | – | 708 |
| Houses let in lodgings inspected | 1 | – | 18 | – | – | – | – | – | – | 15 | 1,422 | – | 1,456 |
| New buildings inspected | 67 | 2 | – | 142 | 11 | 1 | 76 | 8 | 15 | 19 | – | – | 341 |
| Visits to new buildings | 172 | 40 | 11 | 1,728 | 82 | 17 | 769 | 6 | 694 | 5 | 8 | – | 3,532 |
| No. of inspections of slaughterhouses | 24 | 29 | 5 | 46 | 4 | 15 | – | 6 | – | 3 | – | – | 132 |
| Do do. bakehouses | 75 | 41 | 57 | 64 | 32 | 57 | 56 | 99 | 112 | 33 | 32 | – | 658 |
| Do. do. cowhouses and dairies | 32 | 58 | 3 | 52 | 7 | 6 | 7 | 12 | 8 | 26 | 1 | – | 212 |
| Do. do. milk shops | 187 | 74 | 209 | 36 | 127 | 193 | 114 | 229 | 68 | 94 | 112 | – | 1,443 |
| Do. do. ice cream shops | 60 | 30 | 41 | 33 | 48 | 53 | 54 | 81 | 31 | 31 | 32 | – | 494 |
| Do. do. railway stations | 29 | 1 | 10 | 48 | – | – | 27 | 1 | 4 | 6 | – | – | 126 |
| Do. do. workshops | 110 | 63 | 241 | 60 | 133 | 117 | 39 | 231 | 80 | 114 | 129 | 523 | 1,840 |
| Do. do. urinals, public | 93 | 39 | 4 | – | 4 | 49 | 14 | 35 | 57 | 49 | 57 | 48 | 449 |
| Do. do. do. private | 177 | 387 | 205 | 120 | 235 | 303 | 466 | 359 | 478 | 126 | 261 | – | 3,117 |
| Do. do. schools, L.C.C. | 69 | 78 | 38 | 30 | 17 | 26 | 27 | 90 | 84 | 25 | 15 | – | 499 |
| Do. do. do. private | 45 | 7 | 6 | 49 | 1 | 12 | 23 | 14 | 37 | 6 | 57 | – | 257 |
| Do. do. laundries | 57 | 12 | – | 1 | 5 | – | 5 | 22 | 4 | 31 | 2 | 103 | 242 |
| Do. do. re overcrowding | 78 | 2 | 7 | – | 7 | 3 | 8 | 27 | 6 | 4 | 41 | – | 183 |
| Do. do. eating houses | 75 | 20 | 20 | 6 | 25 | 29 | 17 | 64 | 11 | 18 | 49 | 113 | 447 |
| Do. do. factories | 49 | – | – | 1 | 27 | – | – | 72 | – | – | 96 | 117 | 362 |
| Do. do. re outworkers | 6 | 2 | – | – | – | – | – | 4 | – | 3 | – | 1,154 | 1,169 |
| Miscellaneous | 138 | 21 | 69 | 80 | 18 | 275 | 39 | 208 | 18 | 594 | 625 | 1,245 | 3,330 |
| Re-inspections | 3,091 | 4,158 | 3,721 | 3,198 | 2,723 | 3,621 | 4,191 | 3,003 | 3,926 | 2,181 | 2,609 | 71 | 36,493 |
| No. of infected houses | 386 | 154 | 219 | 83 | 179 | 132 | 124 | 174 | 139 | 131 | 83 | 25 | 1,829 |
| Do. do. re-visited | 133 | 21 | 116 | 64 | 15 | 30 | 47 | 197 | 60 | 50 | 46 | – | 779 |
| Measles | 7 | – | – | – | – | – | 1 | 6 | 363 | 15 | 512 | 37 | 29 |
| Intimations served under P.H. Act | 431 | 501 | 304 | 271 | 446 | 462 | 339 | 228 | 363 | 511 | 512 | 37 | 4,405 |
| Statutory notices under P.H. Act | 83 | 164 | 74 | 67 | 85 | 137 | 84 | 29 | 81 | 84 | 104 | 4 | 996 |
| Notices re houses let in lodgings | 1 | – | 6 | – | – | 3 | – | – | – | 16 | 81 | – | 107 |
| Summonses under the P.H. Act | 1 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 5 | 5 | 4 | – | 1 | 9 | 15 | – | 47 |
| Small-pox contacts | 6 | – | 10 | 7 | – | 12 | 5 | – | – | 10 | 2 | – | 52 |
| Cholera do. | – | – | – | 18 | – | – | 4 | – | 3 | 6 | – | – | 31 |
| Totals | 6,381 | 6,746 | 6,099 | 6,665 | 5,320 | 6,202 | 7,425 | 5,798 | 6,886 | 5,085 | 7,244 | 3,446 | 73,297 |