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 1915 of the Medical Officer of Health
This page requires JavaScript
TABLE V. Sanitary Inspectors' Work.—Inspections, &c.
Inspector Bennett. | Inspector Clark. | Inspector Larard. | Inspector Orange. | Whole Borough | ||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Inspections. | Infectious Diseases | 135 | 86 | 96 | 168 | 475 |
Dwelling Houses | 150 | 238 | 83 | 6 | 477 | |
Lodging Houses | 339 | 212 | 187 | 260 | 998‡ | |
Common Lodging Houses | — | 20 | 7 | - | 27 | |
Dairies, Cowsheds and Milkshops | 41 | 211 | 255 | - | 607 | |
Ice Cream—Manufacture or Storage | 21 | 9 | 47 | — | 77 | |
Slaughter-house | — | 7 | - | - | 7 | |
Market Streets | 327 | 49 | 407 | - | 783 | |
Butchers' Shops | 540 | 113 | 278 | - | 931 | |
Bakehouses | 20 | 58 | 98 | - | 176 | |
Other Food Shops | 354 | 95 | 541 | - | 990 | |
Laundries | 1 | 1 | 3 | 6 | 11 | |
Other Workshops | 158 | 118 | 157 | 114 | 547 | |
Out-Workers' Rooms and Registers | 31 | 49 | 61 | 160 | 301 | |
Other Workplaces | 91 | 31 | 88 | 1 | 211 | |
Factories (excluding Bakehouses and Laundries) | 39 | 24 | 76 | 3 | 142 | |
Smoke shafts | 2 | 18 | 12 | - | 32 | |
Urinals | - | 47 | 2 | - | 49 | |
Miscellaneous | 236 | 134 | 161 | 8 | 539 | |
Periodical Inspections | 1,507 | 2,317 | 2,727 | 7 | 6,558* | |
Dust | 36 | 142 | 76 | — | 254† | |
Mews | 164 | 119 | 41 | - | 324 | |
Maternity | - | - | - | 463 | 463 | |
Total Inspections | 4,192 | 4,098 | 5,403 | 1,186 | 14,879 | |
No. of Re-Inspections | 922 | 1,220 | 731 | 582 | 4,924 | |
Do. do. Maternity | - | - | - | 1,469 | ||
Visits other than Inspections and Re-Inspections | 377 | 886 | 596 | 208 | 2,173 | |
Do. do. Maternity | - | - | - | 107 | ||
Total | 5,491 | 6,204 | 6,729 | 3,552 | 21,976 |
* 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.
‡ See also Periodical Inspections.