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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 1913
[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 3rd, 1914.
| Description of Work. | Inspectors. | Totals. | |||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pointon. | Eagle. | Scudamore. | Collins. | Morley. | Farmer. | Dewey. | Malins. | Green. | Jones. | Nash. | Miss Bevan. | ||
| Visits to complaints | 104 | 164 | 158 | 105 | 63 | 187 | 107 | 43 | 103 | 86 | 100 | 5 | 1,225 |
| House inspections following on complaints | 90 | 5 | 189 | 58 | 23 | 195 | 19 | 29 | 115 | 102 | 114 | – | 939 |
| House-to-house inspections | 559 | 626 | 509 | 376 | 465 | 192 | 266 | 340 | 346 | 366 | 243 | – | 4,288 |
| Tenement inspections | – | 3 | 1 | – | 30 | 2 | 22 | 72 | – | 176 | – | – | 306 |
| Houses let in lodgings inspections | – | – | 6 | – | – | – | – | 452 | 37 | 36 | – | – | 531 |
| Housing and town planning inspections | – | – | – | – | – | – | 43 | – | – | 13 | – | – | 56 |
| New buildings completed | 20 | 15 | 12 | 68 | 43 | 12 | 6 | 7 | 7 | 10 | 4 | – | 204 |
| Visits to new buildings | 393 | 174 | 80 | 1,592 | 553 | 228 | 151 | 220 | 13 | 170 | 2 | – | 3,576 |
| No.of inspections re overcrowding | 123 | – | – | – | 3 | 1 | 3 | 70 | 1 | 45 | – | – | 246 |
| Do. do.of slaughterhouses | 8 | 9 | 9 | 45 | – | – | 8 | 2 | 9 | 39 | 8 | – | 137 |
| Do do. bakehouses | 48 | 37 | 48 | 24 | 67 | 94 | 45 | 21 | 50 | 34 | 27 | – | 495 |
| Do. do.cowhouses | 1 | 54 | 9 | 42 | – | 13 | 6 | – | 6 | – | 7 | – | 138 |
| Do do. milk shops and dairies | 182 | 99 | 181 | 37 | 92 | 81 | 126 | 98 | 199 | 94 | 124 | – | 1,313 |
| Do. do. eating houses | 115 | 20 | 21 | 2 | 13 | 10 | 45 | 16 | 29 | 19 | 25 | 112 | 427 |
| Do. do. ice cream shops | 95 | 36 | 35 | 23 | 50 | 49 | 32 | 15 | 42 | 52 | 20 | – | 449 |
| Do. do. railway stations | 20 | 4 | 11 | 74 | 149 | – | – | – | – | 10 | – | – | 268 |
| Do. do. workshops | 152 | 77 | 264 | 37 | 47 | 138 | 72 | 93 | 171 | 80 | 129 | 622 | 1,883 |
| Do. do. factories | 21 | – | – | – | – | – | 31 | 30 | 21 | 41 | 35 | 127 | 306 |
| Do. do. urinals, public | 95 | 38 | – | – | 17 | 39 | 66 | 72 | 10 | 45 | 10 | – | 392 |
| Do. do. do. private | 228 | 192 | 347 | 151 | 352 | 700 | 236 | 279 | 454 | 344 | 210 | – | 3,493 |
| Do. do. schools, public | 31 | 19 | 35 | 15 | 26 | 58 | 28 | 23 | 27 | 20 | 24 | – | 296 |
| Do. do. do. private | 31 | 7 | 3 | 18 | 48 | 54 | 5 | – | – | – | 40 | 206 | |
| Re-inspections | 3,548 | 4,558 | 3,191 | 2,584 | 3,697 | 4,588 | 2,508 | 3,296 | 2,863 | 2,719 | 3,488 | 149 | 37,189 |
| Miscellaneous | 165 | 135 | 163 | 50 | 566 | 46 | 660 | 358 | 477 | 480 | 335 | 1,266 | 4,701 |
| Infectious cases visited and houses inspected | 144 | 134 | 260 | 123 | 94 | 162 | 122 | 92 | 200 | 90 | 374 | – | 1,795 |
| Do. do. or inquiries | 289 | 111 | 140 | 99 | 92 | 130 | 150 | 110 | 212 | 101 | 81 | – | 1,515 |
| Tuberculosis cases visited and houses inspected | 58 | 38 | 108 | 81 | 70 | 33 | 60 | 36 | 157 | 74 | 98 | – | 813 |
| Do. do. or inquiries | 331 | 306 | 551 | 20 | 288 | 309 | 272 | 304 | 750 | 401 | 450 | – | 3,982 |
| Visits to verminous premises | 80 | 6 | 556 | 2 | 14 | 32 | 51 | 75 | 277 | 197 | 146 | – | 1,436 |
| Intimations | 462 | 545 | 393 | 218 | 376 | 323 | 420 | 524 | 467 | 471 | 447 | 56 | 4,702 |
| Statutory notices | 80 | 209 | 97 | 53 | 125 | 110 | 42 | 86 | 182 | 116 | 50 | 9 | 1,159 |
| Notices, houses let in lodgings | – | – | 1 | – | – | 1 | – | 418 | – | 30 | – | – | 450 |
| Summonses under P.H. Act | – | – | 3 | 4 | – | 4 | 1 | – | 16 | 8 | 4 | – | 40 |
| Infectious disease contacts | 16 | 12 | 10 | – | 1 | 5 | 1 | – | – | – | – | – | 45 |
| Seizures of unwholesome food | – | – | 2 | – | – | – | – | 4 | – | – | 1 | – | 7 |
| Outworkers | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | 1412 | 1,412 |
| Drainage plans, total reconstructions | 23 | 20 | 36 | 7 | 30 | 22 | 19 | 26 | 24 | 25 | 34 | – | 266 |
| Do. partial do | 25 | 16 | 16 | 27 | 8 | 21 | 29 | 8 | 27 | 6 | 20 | – | 203 |