London's Pulse: Medical Officer of Health reports 1848-1972
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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
Greenwich 1909
The annual report made to the Council of the Metropolitan Borough of Greenwich for the year 1909
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SUMMARY OF SANITARY WORK—continued.
| First Quarter. | Second Quarter. | Third Quarter. | Fourth Quarter. | Total. | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Unwholesome Food— continued. | |||||
| Voluntarily surrendered Notices, &c. | 1 box cat fish (about 40 lbs.). 7 lbs. of pieces of beef and mutton. 1½ cwt. mussels. 40 sheeps' lungs. 3 pigs' lungs. | 3 boxes skate. 1 case haddock. 2 boxes plaice. 1 box herrings (about 50 lbs.). 1½ bushels peri-winkles. 7 lbs. apples. 3 shins beef. 20 lbs. beef. 1½ cwt. haddock. 1 diseased ox liver. | 250 herrings. 5 lbs. sansage meat. 1 bushel unsound peas. 2 bushels peas. 1 box m acker' 1 (80 lbs.). 23 pecks straw-berries. 2 large coal fish. | 19 sheeps' lungs. 1 ox lung 2 trunks roker (about 2 cwt.). 1 trunk hadd'cks (about 1 cwt.) | |
| Intimations Served under Public Health (London) Act, 1891 (Section 3) | 290 | 378 | 217 | 352 | 1237 |
| Complaints Received | 52 | 61 | 90 | 58 | 261 |
| Complaints Attended to | 52 | 61 | 90 | 58 | 261 |
| Statutory Notices Served under Section 4 | 49 | 64 | 29 | 106 | 246 |
| Statutory Notices re Ashpit provision | 33 | 25 | 12 | 15 | 85 |
| Other Statutory Notices | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... |
| Letters Written relating to Abatement of Nuisances | 96 | 65 | 63 | 92 | 316 |
| Summonses Applied for and Issued | 5 | 8 | 6 | 4 | 23 |
| Magisterial Orders Obtained and Enforced | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... |
| Drainage Plans received and examined | 28 | 40 | 25 | 26 | 119 |