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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
Lambeth 1918
Report on the vital and sanitary statistics of the Borough of Lambeth during the year 1918
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SANITARY STAFF.
The Sanitary Inspectorial Staff consists of 12 district male
Sanitary Inspectors and 1 special male Sanitary Inspector for Food
and Drugs, 2 female Sanitary Inspectors (who also act as part-time
Health Visitors), and 3 women Health Visitors. The work carried
out during 1918 by these various officers is set out in tabular form.
Summary of Work Carried Out by the Male Sanitary Inspectors during 1918.
| Inspections | 8432 |
| Re-inspections | 40712 |
| Complaints attended to | 2281 |
| Water Certificates issued | 5 |
| Revenue Act Certificates dealt with | 45 |
| Drains tested (with chemical, water or smoke test) | 2651 |
| Sanitary Works completed | 4147 |
| Plans of drainage reconstructions received | 73 |
| Premises the Drains of which have been totally or partly reconstructed | 80 |
| Samples of Food and Drugs taken | 1296 |
| Notices— | |
| Public Health (London) Act, 1891 (Preliminary or Intimation 8237 and Statutory 3874) | 12111 |
| Metropolis Local Management Acts | 13 |
| Sanitary Nuisances abated— | |
| (a) Structural | 15150 |
| (b) Non-Structural | 4933 |
| Summonses issued— | |
| Public Health Act | — |
| Food and Drugs Acts | 29 |
| Convictions obtained— | |
| Public Health Act | — |
| Food and Drugs Acts | 20 |
N.B.—In addition to the above, the District Inspectors carried
out, during 1918 routine duties connected with the inspecting of
unsound and unwholesome food*, the supervision of bakehouses,
slaughter-houses, cow-houses, dairies, milk shops and milk stores,
the market thoroughfares, outside urinals of public-houses, smoke,
the male public conveniences, factories and workshops, and workplaces
wherein males are employed, common lodging-houses, offensive
trades, effluvium nuisances, houses let in lodgings, exempted
tenements (Revenue Act), refuse and manure depots, etc. No new
houses were registered under the by-laws for houses let in lodgings,
*In dealing with unsound and unwholesome food care was taken that surrendered,
condemned or damaged foodstuffs were utilised for the production of
animal foodstuffs or fertilisers, or, in the case of meat, used for the extraction
of fat therefrom, in accordance with the terms of the Damaged Foodstuffs
Order, 1918, and the requirements of the National Salvage Council.