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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Work of Sanitary Inspectors.
The work performed by the District Inspectors represents, as usual,
a very large number of inspections. The total inspections and visits to
premises numbered 17,051. The figures stated above related to 5,449
houses in which 6,039 sanitary improvements of one kind and another
were effected. The premises visited included stable yards, manure
depots, vacant land, passages, public urinals, urinals attached to public
houses and premises for which certificates under the Customs and
Inland Revenue Acts were required, as well as those for which certificates
as to the water supply were demanded.