London's Pulse: Medical Officer of Health reports 1848-1972
View report page
Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
Bethnal Green 1914
Report on the sanitary condition and vital statistics during the year 1914 together with the report of the Chief Sanitary Inspector
This page requires JavaScript
APPENDIX M.
| Verminous School Children. | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1910. | 1911. | 1912. | 1913 | 1914. | |
| Number of complaints received | 252 | 329 | 974 | 928 | 804 |
| do. inspections and re-inspections made | 289 | 358 | 991 | 1,742 | 1,090 |
| do. premises found to be verminous | 46 | 16 | 82 | 54 | 62 |
| do. defects discovered | 334 | 317 | 1,116 | 1,401 | 621 |
| do. notices served | 206 • | 152 | 211 | 466 | 324 |
| do. prosecutions | — | — | — | 1 | — |