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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 1912

The annual report made to the Council of the Metropolitan Borough of Greenwich for the year 1912

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Table: Food Preparation. Places where food is prepared have been visited on 248 occasions, improvements being required in 47 instances, as detailed below:—

Food Preparation. Places where food is prepared have been visited on 248 occasions, improvements being required in 47 instances, as detailed below:—

Class of Premises.Number on Lists.Number of InspectionsNumber of instances where matters needed attention.
At end of 1911.Added 1912.Removed 1912.At end of 1912.
Hotel Kitchens5......552
Eating Houses5353556819
Fried Fish Shops33553310412
Pork Butchers173119339
Mineral Water Manufacturers1......111
Ice do.2......22...
Sausage do.5......5334
Others3...122...
Totals119131012224847

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The 47 instances where matters needed attention included 37
cases where the premises generally, or kitchen and scullery particularly,
needed cleansing and lime-washing, leaving 10 other
minor defects.
Customs and Inland Revenue Acts. One application with
respect to three tenements was received during the year for certificates
under these Acts, but no certificate was granted for the
alterations required were not carried out by the applicant.
Housing of the Working Classes. Premises have been found
to be overcrowded in 29 cases, which have all been abated, and in 2
cases the illegal use of underground rooms has been discontinued.
Three hundred and twenty-four houses have been generally
repaired; 374 premises have been cleansed, limewashed, and repaired:
222 have been improved as regards their ventilation; 349
premises have had the walls and ceilings cleansed throughout, and
247 premises have been partially cleansed: leaky house roofs and