Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Camberwell.
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I—31
Return of work performed in the sanitary department during the 52 weeks ending December, 1912.
| Description of Work. | Inspectors. | ||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pointon. | Eagle. | Scudamore. | Collins. | Morley. | Farmer. | Dewey. | Malins. | Green. | Jones. | Nash. | Miss Bevan. | Totals. | |
| Visits to complaints | 132 | 173 | 214 | 102 | 88 | 220 | 121 | 79 | 140 | 176 | 65 | 7 | 1,517 |
| House inspections following on complaints | 124 | 9 | 222 | 81 | 8 | 203 | 17 | 34 | 121 | 118 | 44 | – | 981 |
| House-to-house inspections | 425 | 578 | 331 | 323 | 602 | 201 | 192 | 397 | 346 | 434 | 437 | – | 4,266 |
| Tenement inspections | – | – | 41 | – | 15 | – | 76 | 45 | 2 | 349 | – | – | 528 |
| Houses let in lodgings inspections | – | – | 1 | – | – | – | – | 414 | 42 | 24 | – | – | 481 |
| Housing and town planning inspections | – | – | 23 | – | 14 | – | – | 46 | 4 | – | – | – | 87 |
| New buildings completed | 6 | 10 | 14 | 64 | 55 | 4 | 10 | 1 | 1 | 6 | 2 | – | 173 |
| Visits to new buildings | 156 | 63 | 110 | 1,279 | 272 | 36 | 32 | 86 | – | 126 | – | – | 2,160 |
| No. of inspections re overcrowding | 119 | – | 12 | – | 1 | – | 4 | 85 | 6 | 60 | – | – | 287 |
| Do. of slaughterhouses | 15 | 13 | 8 | 50 | – | – | 4 | – | 7 | 24 | 9 | – | 130 |
| Do. do. bakehouses | 78 | 35 | 50 | 19 | 73 | 118 | 46 | 28 | 56 | 18 | 14 | – | 535 |
| Do. do. cowhouses | 5 | 54 | 6 | 40 | – | 13 | 6 | – | 4 | – | 2 | – | 130 |
| Do. do. milk shops and dairies | 210 | 103 | 186 | 40 | 107 | 96 | 115 | 112 | 228 | 97 | 59 | – | 1,353 |
| Do. do. eating houses | 130 | 22 | 28 | 2 | 16 | 12 | 25 | 18 | 34 | 20 | 22 | 90 | 419 |
| Do. do. ice cream shops | 70 | 39 | 44 | 23 | 59 | 35 | 38 | 18 | 59 | 45 | 30 | – | 469 |
| Do. do. railway stations | 25 | 2 | 13 | 70 | 15 | – | – | – | – | 11 | – | – | 136 |
| Do. do. workshops | 148 | 100 | 289 | 21 | 48 | 141 | 68 | 127 | 153 | 80 | 104 | 727 | 2,006 |
| Do. do. factories | 77 | – | – | 3 | – | – | 32 | 33 | 45 | 48 | 39 | 121 | 398 |
| Do. do. urinals, public | 90 | 45 | – | 8 | 12 | 41 | 45 | 76 | 19 | 53 | 7 | – | 396 |
| Do. do. do. private | 225 | 203 | 263 | 128 | 355 | 729 | 220 | 266 | 356 | 326 | 148 | 4 | 3,223 |
| Do. do. schools, public | 44 | 20 | 37 | 26 | 24 | 65 | 21 | 29 | 27 | 20 | 19 | – | 332 |
| Do. do. do. private | 32 | 7 | 11 | 23 | 56 | 64 | 7 | 5 | – | – | 1 | 47 | 253 |
| Re-inspections | 3,336 | 4,036 | 3,055 | 2,553 | 3,680 | 4,029 | 2,501 | 2,859 | 2,664 | 2,132 | 1,271 | 183 | 32,299 |
| Miscellaneous | 236 | 165 | 75 | 83 | 273 | 82 | 738 | 410 | 465 | 856 | 155 | 1,191 | 4,729 |
| Infectious cases visited and houses inspected | 97 | 58 | 175 | 68 | 87 | 107 | 82 | 58 | 163 | 65 | 139 | – | 1,099 |
| Do. do. or inquiries | 144 | 20 | 117 | 89 | 31 | 85 | 29 | 61 | 90 | 68 | 16 | – | 750 |
| Tuberculosis cases visited and houses inspected | 93 | 53 | 99 | 27 | 46 | 34 | 69 | 55 | 145 | 60 | 92 | – | 773 |
| Do. do. or inquiries | 441 | 375 | 711 | 47 | 322 | 267 | 346 | 282 | 794 | 406 | 383 | – | 4,434 |
| Visits to verminous premises | 135 | 25 | 605 | 2 | 25 | 70 | 69 | 127 | 589 | 111 | 53 | – | 1,811 |
| Intimations | 480 | 547 | 372 | 247 | 352 | 324 | 384 | 598 | 541 | 522 | 292 | 66 | 4,725 |
| Statutory notices | 72 | 155 | 94 | 57 | 107 | 112 | 60 | 127 | 200 | 162 | 7 | 11 | 1,164 |
| Notices, houses let in lodgings | – | – | — | – | – | – | – | 337 | 28 | 9 | – | – | 374 |
| Summonses under P.H. Act | – | – | 1 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 6 | – | – | 27 |
| Infectious disease contacts | 7 | 12 | 24 | 6 | 14 | 19 | 23 | 12 | 32 | 31 | – | – | 180 |
| Seizures of unwholesome food | – | – | – | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | – | – | 1 | – | 7 |
| Outworkers | – | 2 | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | 1,319 | 1,321 |
| Drainage plans, total reconstructions | 6 | 16 | 43 | 7 | 31 | 22 | 35 | 7 | 26 | 9 | 8 | – | 210 |
| Do. partial do. | 11 | 17 | 30 | 23 | 15 | 23 | 32 | 12 | 29 | 18 | 5 | – | 215 |