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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

Holborn 1920

Report for the year 1920 of the Medical Officer of Health

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Table: TABLE VIII. SANITARY INSPECTORS WORK.-Inspections, etc. 1920.

TABLE VIII. SANITARY INSPECTORS WORK.-Inspections, etc. 1920.

Inspector Bennett.Inspector Clark.Inspector Larard.Inspector Charles-worthInspector ShinnieWhole Boro
‡ InspectionsInfectious Diseases10810014310086537
Dwelling Houses99280591—439
Lodging Houses3432061371514841
Common Lodging Houses—3———3
Dairies, Cowsheds and Milkshops189568——181
Ice Cream—Manufacture or Storage14455——73
Slaughter-house—5———5
Market Streets34395438—876
Butchers' Shops4788268——754
Bakehouses145339——106
Fried Fish Shops20767——94
Other Food Shops28474300——658
Laundries—————
Other Workshops61109651—236
Out-Workers' Rooms and Registers1318—8—39
Other Workplaces6442671—174
Factories (excluding Bakehouses and Laundries)311942——92
Smoke shafts4572——54
Urinals—11———11
Miscellaneous28013714451567
Periodical Inspections1.5912,1713,527——7,289
Dust271910——56
Mews7624———100
Maternity———318349667
Total Inspections3,9093,4875.43158544013,852
No. of Re-Inspections1.4071,712997216—4.332
Do. do. Maternity———424411835
Visits other than Inspections and Re-Inspections431929599441,967
Do. do. Maternity———98169267
Maternity Centres : Attendances———223246469
Food Control—Visits and Inspections5015681——287
Total5,7976,2847,1081,5501,27022,009

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*See also Periodical Inspections.
†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.