Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
Report for the year 1914 of the Medical Officer of Health
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TABLE V. Sanitary Inspectors' Work.—Inspections, &c.
Inspector Bennett. | Inspector Clark. | Inspector Larard. | Inspector Orange. | Whole Borough | ||
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Inspections. | Infectious Diseases | 71 | 92 | 117 | 225 | 505 |
Dwelling Houses | 112 | 240 | 112 | 5 | 469 | |
Lodging Houses | 336 | 241 | 252 | 183 | 1,012 | |
Common Lodging Houses | — | 13 | 9 | — | 22 | |
Dairies, Cowsheds and Milkshops | 83 | 278 | 303 | — | 664 | |
Ice Cream—Manufacture or Storage | 9 | 22 | 97 | — | 128 | |
Slaughter-house | — | 10 | — | — | 10 | |
Market Streets | 209 | 70 | 464 | — | 803 | |
Butchers' Shops | 601 | 188 | 272 | — | 961 | |
Bakehouses | 35 | 88 | 99 | — | 222 | |
Other Food Shops | 191 | 187 | 481 | — | 869 | |
Laundries | 3 | 2 | 2 | 9 | 16 | |
Other Workshops | 114 | 161 | 82 | 119 | 476 | |
Out-Workers' Rooms and Registers | 21 | 47 | 34 | 159 | 261 | |
Other Workplaces | 79 | 77 | 65 | 1 | 222 | |
Factories (excluding Bakehouses and Laundries) | 29 | 15 | 41 | 1 | 86 | |
Smoke shafts | 6 | 21 | 81 | — | 108 | |
Urinals | 1 | 44 | 11 | — | 66 | |
Miscellaneous | 172 | 42 | 180 | 39 | 433 | |
Periodical Inspections* | 1,336 | 2,110 | 2,610 | 91 | 6,147 | |
Dust† | 48 | 218 | 59 | — | 325 | |
Mews | 130 | 103 | 37 | — | 270 | |
Maternity | — | — | — | 629 | 529 | |
Total Inspections | 3,546 | 4,269 | 5,408 | 1,361 | 14,584 | |
No. of Re-Inspections | 806 | 1,486 | 903 | 597 | 4,989 | |
Do. do. Maternity | — | — | — | 1,197 | ||
Visits other than Inspections and Re-Inspections | 385 | 705 | 771 | 228 | 2,204 | |
Do. do. Maternity | — | — | — | 112 | ||
Total | 4,737 | 6,460 | 7,085 | 3,495 | 21,777 |
* The majority of these are weekly inspections of Registered Lodging Houses,
† A large number of inspections respecting the removal of Refuse is also made during
General and Periodical Inspections of houses.
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