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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

Wandsworth 1916

Annual report on the health, sanitary condition, &c., of the Borough for the year1916

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Report of the Medical Officer of Health.

Table: TABLE XL.DETAILS OF INSPECTIONS AND RE-'INSPECTIONS, 1916. (Female Inspectors.)

TABLE XL.

DETAILS OF INSPECTIONS AND RE-'INSPECTIONS, 1916. (Female Inspectors.)

Inspections.Re-inspections.Totals.
Number of complaints received and attended to Number of premises inspected on account8..8
of:— Puerperal Fever451055
Ophthalmia Neonatorum85388
Diarrhoea87289
Pulmonary Tuberculosis2,5401062,646
Other forms of Tuberculosis7114715
Notification of Births8,4311428,573
Dressmakers' and Milliners' premises Laundries—43024454
Factory15113164
Workshop24024264
Workplace1239132
Other Factories781088
Other Workshops1692171
Other Workplaces23714251
Domestic Workshops58361
Outworkers' premises39813411
Other6473650
Totals14,43838214,820

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The Table of house-to-house inspections which follows shows
the number of houses inspected in each Ward, the number of
houses in which defects were found, the percentage of defects to
houses inspected, as well as the number of families living in one,
two, three, and four rooms and upwards.