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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

Islington 1905

Fiftieth annual report on the health and sanitary condition of the Metropolitan Borough of Islington

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Table: TableCXXV.Giving a Summary of theSanitary Workperformed by theDistrictInspectorsin 1905.

TableCXXV.

Giving a Summary of theSanitary Workperformed by theDistrict

Inspectorsin 1905.

Inspections.quarters.The Year.
First.Second.Third.Fourth.
House to House Inspections5844753523141,725
Number of Houses Inspected2,6151,5561,5241,5767,271
Re-inspections, Calls made, &c.17,97815,52712,00313,32558,833
Total Visits21,17717,55813,87915,21567,829
Visits to Ice Cream Factories..193357235
Do. Dairies and Milkshops2182822493221,071
Do. Stables and Yards1,2721,6471,4958475,261
Do. Manure Depfits24224260148
Do. Workshops, with respect to Drains220119141133613
Do. Under Customs and Inland Revenue Acts364416460304
Do. re Water Certificates1048920324420
Do. Registered Lodging Houses314
Smoke Observations112147139135533
All Inspections, Visits, &c.23,16620,10216,34716,80376,418

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N.B.—In addition to the above work, four of these Inspectors in rotation visit premises where
food is sold on Saturday evenings, and as each visits on an average 30 shops it is estimated that
during the year 6,240 visits were made.