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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 1909
Report on the sanitary condition and vital statistics during the year 1909 together with the report of the Chief Sanitary Inspector
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APPENDIX P.
Overcrowding and House to House Inspections.
Number of dwelling rooms overcrowded in 1909 140
do. do. remedied in 1909 131
Number of Prosecutions Nil
Number of House to House Inspections in 1909 1,739
Number of defects discovered 2,517
Number of notices served 1,162
APPENDIX Q.
The complaints* received from public and semipublic
bodies during the year, were
as follows:—
London County Council 2
London County Council smoke complaints
per coal officers 4
H.M. Factory Inspections 60
Mansion House Council (Local Sanitary Aid
Committee)* 94
Metropolitan Water Board (Notification of
cessation of supply of water 66
*Those of the Mansion House Council no longer represent
complaints as usually understood, that is by aggrieved persons writing
them soliciting assistance to obtain the abatement of some alleged
insanitary condition. In many instances they visit a street houseby
house which is a deviation from original procedure. Probably
over 50% of these “complaints” could not be called legal nuisances
but we do our best to secure attention to the same, with fair success.