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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 1926
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Camberwell.
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SUMMARY OF INSPECTIONS, ETC., JANUARY 1st TO DECEMBER 31ST, 1926.
| Description op Work. | Inspectors. | Totals. | ||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| W. Eagle. | G. W. Scudamore. | E. R. Collins. | G. G. Morley. | M. Malins. | H. C. Green. | R. F. Nash. | W. T. Worsfold. | D. Glenday. | A. L. Dobson. | D. H. Pickard. | Miss O'Riordan. | Mrs. Scudamore. | ||
| Visits to complaints | 565 | 370 | 518 | 521 | 293 | 725 | 425 | 679 | 481 | 707 | 300 | 12 | 4 | 5,600 |
| House inspections following on complaints | 140 | 378 | 450 | 333 | 138 | 527 | 62 | 308 | 177 | 421 | 39 | 9 | – | 2,982 |
| House-to-house inspections | 165 | 211 | 247 | 336 | 225 | 222 | 46 | 251 | 129 | 186 | 130 | 4 | – | 2,152 |
| Tenement inspections | 3 | 1 | – | 13 | 41 | 4 | – | 90 | – | 39 | – | 56 | – | 247 |
| Houses let in lodgings inspections | – | – | – | – | 271 | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | 271 |
| Housing and Town Planning inspections | – | – | – | – | 51 | – | 102 | – | 144 | – | – | – | – | 297 |
| Visits to new buildings | 502 | 175 | 638 | 274 | 33 | – | 324 | 78 | 43 | – | 1 | – | – | 2,068 |
| Visits re overcrowding | 2 | 4 | 1 | 10 | 19 | 35 | 5 | 8 | 5 | 41 | 21 | – | 4 | 155 |
| Slaughterhouses | 2 | – | – | 50 | – | 3 | 112 | – | – | 73 | 5 | – | – | 195 |
| Bakehouses | 23 | 77 | 36 | 50 | 16 | 47 | 28 | 34 | 33 | 27 | 17 | – | – | 388 |
| Cowhouses | – | – | – | – | – | – | 16 | – | – | – | – | – | – | 16 |
| Milkshops and dairies | 85 | 169 | 75 | 145 | 113 | 192 | 118 | 120 | 132 | 188 | 98 | – | – | 1,435 |
| Eating houses | 13 | 64 | 5 | 8 | 14 | 17 | 26 | 5 | 28 | 23 | 21 | – | – | 224 |
| Ice cream shops and stalls | 14 | 20 | 43 | 73 | 37 | 32 | 50 | 49 | 90 | 45 | 33 | – | – | 486 |
| Railway stations | 3 | 7 | 75 | 69 | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | 154 |
| Workshops | 48 | 59 | 55 | 46 | 115 | 98 | 24 | 54 | 24 | 97 | 85 | 311 | 253 | 1,269 |
| Factories | 3 | 15 | 17 | 21 | 37 | 48 | 18 | 50 | 23 | 75 | 52 | 296 | 90 | 745 |
| Offensive Trade Premises—Visits | – | – | – | – | 5 | – | 3 | – | – | 16 | 3 | – | – | 27 |
| Urinals, public | 83 | 32 | 33 | – | 46 | 61 | 75 | 61 | 28 | 27 | 13 | 118 | 68 | 645 |
| Do. private | 165 | 157 | 159 | 370 | 147 | 285 | 136 | 144 | 428 | 414 | 137 | – | – | 2,542 |
| 3,825 | Re-inspections | 3,029 | 3,945 | 3,994 | 2,982 | 4,143 | 1,581 | 2,873 | 3,782 | 4,609 | 2,044 | 354 | 2 | 37,163 |
| Miscellaneous | 296 | 313 | 355 | 325 | 372 | 386 | 288 | 429 | 445 | 242 | 56 | 1,115 | 141 | 4,763 |
| Infectious cases visited and houses inspected | 126 | 109 | 87 | 155 | 147 | 227 | 151 | 249 | 211 | 319 | 112 | 10 | 10 | 1,913 |
| Infectious cases, inquiries | 28 | 20 | 12 | 37 | 35 | 27 | 19 | 120 | 31 | 61 | 17 | 517 | 278 | 1,202 |
| Infectious disease contacts visited | – | 5 | 84 | 11 | 4 | 10 | 1 | 15 | – | 1 | – | – | – | 131 |
| Inspection of foodstuffs | 1 | 48 | 38 | 46 | 256 | 279 | 3,626 | 200 | 304 | 692 | 92 | – | – | 5,582 |
| Smoke observations | 6 | 15 | – | – | 11 | 4 | – | – | 5 | 26 | – | – | – | 67 |
| Schools, private | – | 9 | 11 | 2 | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | 39 | 96 | 157 |
| Outworkers visited | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | 921 | 1,869 | 2,790 |
| Measles | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | 774 | 309 | 1,083 |
| Scabies | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | 18 | 6 | 24 |
| Ophth. Neonm. | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | 200 | 3 | 203 |
| Verms. Cplts., visits | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | 43 | 9 | 52 |
| Fish curers premises | 2 | 4 | 5 | 4 | 12 | 9 | 4 | 4 | 3 | 10 | 5 | – | – | 62 |
| Rag and bone dealers' premises | 3 | – | 3 | – | 4 | 8 | – | – | 5 | – | 1 | – | – | 24 |
| Total number of visits | 6,103 | 5,201 | 6,892 | 6,843 | 5,424 | 7,389 | 7,240 | 5,821 | 6,961 | 7,929 | 3,282 | 4,797 | 3,142 | 77,114 |
| Seizures of foodstuffs | 2 | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | 2 |
| Smoke nuisances | – | – | – | 1 | 2 | – | – | – | 1 | 3 | – | – | – | 7 |
| Drains, total reconstruction | 9 | – | 14 | 16 | 9 | 7 | 9 | 13 | 10 | 26 | 2 | – | – | 115 |
| Do. partial reconstruction | 16 | – | 54 | 2 | 12 | 47 | 9 | 20 | 11 | 6 | – | – | – | 177 |
| Intimations | 506 | 510 | 645 | 678 | 512 | 666 | 439 | 632 | 533 | 965 | 684 | 169 | 8 | 7,007 |
| Statutory notices, Public Health | 187 | 111 | 215 | 225 | 153 | 180 | 92 | 273 | 220 | 243 | 149 | – | – | 2,048 |
| Notices, Section 3, Housing Act, 1925 | – | – | 4 | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | 4 |
| Do. Section 5 do. do. | – | – | – | – | 1 | 4 | 14 | 23 | – | 4 | 10 | 2 | – | 58 |
| Intimations, houses let in lodgings | – | – | – | – | 276 | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | 276 |
| Notices, houses let in lodgings | – | – | – | – | 99 | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | 99 |
| Jobs done without notices | 18 | – | 88 | 26 | 22 | – | – | 39 | 9 | 5 | 20 | – | – | 227 |