London's Pulse: Medical Officer of Health reports 1848-1972
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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
Bethnal Green 1915
Report on the sanitary condition and vital statistics during the year 1915 together with the report of the Chief Sanitary Inspector
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| House-to-House Inspections. | |
| Number of inspections | 852 |
| Number of notices served | 391 |
| Cases of overcrowding remedied during 1915 | 114 |
| Number of defects discovered and remedied | 1,713 |
| 1910. | 1911. | 1912. | 1913. | 1914. | 1915 | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Number of complaints received | 252 | 329 | 974 | 928 | 804 | 977 | |
| do. | inspections and re-inspections made | 289 | 358 | 991 | 1,742 | 1,090 | 1,250 |
| do. | premises found to be verminous | 46 | 16 | 82 | 54 | 62 | 4 |
| do. | defects discovered | 334 | 317 | 1,116 | 1,401 | 621 | 27 |
| do. | notices served | 206 | 152 | 211 | 466 | 324 | 26 |
| do. | prosecutions | — | — | — | 1 | — | — |