Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
Annual report on the health of the Metropolitan Borough of Deptford
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STREET. | Small Pox. | Diphtheria. | Erysipelas. | Scarlet Fever. | Enteric Fever. | Continued Fever, | Puerperal Fever. | Cerebrospinal Fever. | Acute Poliomyelitis | Ophthalmia Neonatorum | Pulmonary Tuberculosis. | Other Tuberculous Diseases. | Anthrax. |
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Wallbutton Road | 1 | 1 | |||||||||||
Wagner Street | |||||||||||||
Waller Road | 1 | 3 | 2 | ||||||||||
Walpole Road | 1 | 2 | |||||||||||
Walsham Road | 1 | ||||||||||||
Warwick Street | 1 | 2 | |||||||||||
Watergate Street | 3 | 3 | |||||||||||
Watson Street | 3 | 1 | |||||||||||
Whitcher Street | 3 | 5 | 1 | ||||||||||
Wickham Road | 1 | ||||||||||||
Wilson Street | 2 | 2 | 1 | ||||||||||
Windmill Lane | 2 | 4 | 2 | ||||||||||
Woodpecker Rd. | 2 | 2 | 6 | 1 | 2 | ||||||||
Wotton Road | 1 | 2 | |||||||||||
Wrigglesworth St | 1 | ||||||||||||
Totals | 201 | 146 | 440 | 37 | 4 | 15 | 2 | 13 | 299 | 106 | 1 |
GENERAL SANITARY ADMINISTRATION.
Work of Sanitary Inspectors.
The work performed by these inspectors, of whom there are eight,
including one on military service, is of a varied character, and is
increasing year by year, as Public Health legislation increases. Their
principal duties are set out in the following statement:—
1. To make a house to house inspection of their district as required
by the Housing and Town Planning Act, 1909.
2. To inquire into complaints made to the Sanitary Authority.
3. To supervise the work required to be done for the abatement of
the nuisances which they have discovered.
4. To inspect ice cream factories.
5. To inspect dairies and mikshops.
6. To inspect stables, yards, manure pits, passages, courts and
vacant plots of land.