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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
Camberwell 1924
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Camberwell.
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SUMMARY OF INSPECTIONS, ETC., JANUARY 1st TO DECEMBER 31st, 1924.
| Description of Work. | Inspectors. | Totals. | |||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| W. Eagle. | G. W. Scudamore. | E. R. Collins. | G. G. Morley. | W. R. Farmer. | M. Malins. | H. C. Green. | E. P. Nash. | W. T. Worsfold. | D. Glenday. | Miss O'Riordan. | Miss Butcher. | ||
| Visits to complaints | 331 | 262 | 324 | 310 | 513 | 290 | 458 | 223 | 541 | 414 | 25 | 5 | 3,696 |
| House inspections following on complaints | 147 | 267 | 287 | 236 | 390 | 176 | 326 | 96 | 374 | 341 | – | – | 2,640 |
| House-to-house inspections | 168 | 114 | 29 | 200 | 37 | 164 | 83 | 22 | 156 | 36 | – | – | 1,009 |
| Tenement inspections | – | – | – | 76 | – | 86 | – | 88 | 56 | – | 18 | – | 324 |
| Houses let in lodgings inspections | – | 3 | – | – | – | 220 | – | – | 1 | 37 | – | – | 261 |
| Housing and Town Planning inspections | – | – | – | – | – | 47 | – | – | – | – | – | – | 47 |
| Visits to new buildings | 64 | 23 | 1,056 | 611 | 218 | 36 | 93 | 2 | 7 | 65 | – | – | 2,175 |
| Visits re. overcrowding | 3 | 8 | 1 | – | – | 17 | – | – | 2 | – | 5 | – | 36 |
| Slaughterhouses | 67 | 41 | 21 | – | 25 | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | 154 |
| Bakehouses | 45 | 76 | 61 | 64 | 111 | 30 | 27 | 36 | 40 | 9 | – | – | 499 |
| Cowhouses | 5 | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | — | – | – | – | 5 |
| Milkshops and dairies | 115 | 169 | 65 | 122 | 271 | 112 | 116 | 66 | 135 | 85 | – | – | 1,256 |
| Eating houses | 28 | 34 | 5 | 13 | 38 | 22 | 17 | 16 | 27 | 28 | – | – | 228 |
| Ice cream shops and stalls | 50 | 38 | 53 | 73 | 43 | 32 | 50 | 1 | 53 | 74 | – | – | 467 |
| Railway stations | 4 | 11 | 70 | 125 | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | 210 |
| Workshops | 55 | 132 | 43 | 82 | 121 | 78 | 121 | 70 | 136 | 114 | 236 | 141 | 1,329 |
| Factories | 39 | 101 | 24 | 29 | 2 | 39 | 65 | 41 | 90 | 89 | 228 | 65 | 812 |
| Offensive Trade Premises—Visits | 1 | 23 | – | 1 | – | 2 | 2 | 2 | – | – | – | 31 | |
| Urinals, public | 105 | 23 | 66 | 61 | 15 | 93 | 88 | – | 74 | 33 | 126 | 66 | 750 |
| Do. private | 382 | 345 | 196 | 380 | 605 | 230 | 543 | 111 | 256 | 370 | – | – | 3,418 |
| Re-inspections | 3,719 | 3,355 | 3,912 | 3,907 | 3,740 | 3,217 | 3,753 | 2,573 | 3,065 | 4,647 | 82 | 58 | 30,028 |
| Miscellaneous | 418 | 72 | 268 | 132 | 134 | 285 | 279 | 183 | 225 | 252 | 1,177 | 126 | 3,551 |
| Infectious cases visited and houses inspected | 129 | 128 | 129 | 127 | 98 | 187 | 210 | 70 | 284 | 224 | 19 | – | 1,605 |
| Infectious cases, inquiries | 36 | 32 | 20 | 17 | 28 | 48 | 50 | 8 | 143 | 23 | 740 | 343 | 1,488 |
| Infectious disease contacts visited | 14 | 10 | 64 | 43 | 12 | – | 1 | – | – | 11 | – | – | 155 |
| Inspection of foodstuffs | 54 | 64 | 44 | 41 | 67 | 180 | 57 | 377 | 123 | 446 | – | – | 1,453 |
| Smoke observations | 123 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 24 | 12 | 8 | 6 | 1 | 1 | – | – | 182 |
| Schools, private | – | – | 13 | 4 | 7 | 1 | – | – | – | 1 | 41 | 115 | 181 |
| Outworkers visited | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | 774 | 1,296 | 2,070 |
| Measles | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | 867 | 717 | 1,584 |
| Scabies | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | 27 | 10 | 37 |
| Ophth. Neonm. | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | 88 | 37 | 125 |
| Verms. Cplts., visits | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | 57 | 19 | 76 |
| Fish curers' premises | 1 | 22 | 11 | 4 | – | 12 | 8 | 4 | – | 3 | – | – | 65 |
| Rag and bone dealers' premises | 5 | 3 | – | 1 | – | 3 | 1 | – | – | 5 | – | – | 18 |
| Total number of visits | 6,108 | 5,358 | 6,763 | 6,663 | 6,499 | 5,619 | 6,356 | 3,995 | 5,789 | 7,307 | 4,510 | 2,998 | 67,965 |
| Seizures of foodstuffs | – | – | 1 | – | – | — | — | 1 | – | – | – | – | 2 |
| Smoke nuisances | 6 | 3 | – | 2 | – | 1 | 2 | 1 | – | – | – | – | 15 |
| Drains, total reconstruction | 28 | 10 | 13 | 12 | – | 11 | – | 2 | 7 | 4 | – | – | 87 |
| Do. partial reconstruction | 20 | 21 | 33 | 2 | 1 | 28 | 6 | 11 | 20 | 31 | – | – | 179 |
| Intimations | 446 | 367 | 343 | 554 | 340 | 808 | 506 | 298 | 570 | 542 | 99 | 9 | 4,882 |
| Statutory notices, Public Health | 160 | 132 | 175 | 164 | 162 | 307 | 192 | 89 | 200 | 201 | 3 | – | 1,785 |
| Notices, Section 28, Housing and Town Planning Act | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – |
| Do. Section 29 do. do. | – | 6 | 1 | 2 | – | 3 | 2 | – | 28 | 7 | – | – | 49 |
| Intimations, houses let in lodgings | – | 3 | – | – | – | 309 | – | – | 1 | 37 | – | – | 350 |
| Notices, houses let in lodgings | – | – | – | – | – | 70 | – | – | 2 | – | – | – | 72 |