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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 1946

Metropolitan Borough of Camberwell annual (abridged) report of the Medical Officer of Health for the year 1946

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Table: RETURN OF WORK 1946.

RETURN OF WORK 1946.

Street markets inspections2129
Food Places – inspections
Bakehouses162
Fish Curers' premises100
Fried Fish shops102
Ice cream premises521
Restaurants a eating houses211
Milkshops276
Slaughterhouses22
Carcases inspected47
" condemned with organs7
Organs Inspected218
" condemned33
Other food premises3750
Inspections of food surrendered765
Food condemnation certificates issued2305
No. food premises repaired229
Shops Act inspections561
Food Poisoning investigations26
Inspections not defined790
Intimations served281
Statutory Notices served62
Re-inspections883
Food Control Inquiries647
Complaints received92
Complaints found to be justified73
Inspections of foodstuffs for export1

Table: PARTICULARS OF UNSOUND FOOD CONDEMNED.

PARTICULARS OF UNSOUND FOOD CONDEMNED.

tonscwtqrslbs.
Meat21838½
Fish–14120½
Canned & Miscellaneous foods298–13¾
Total331114¾

Table: SANITARY INSPECTION.

SANITARY INSPECTION.

No. of complaints received7489
Inspections under the Shops Act, 1954563
" " the Pharmacy & Poisons Act, 1933127
" of Milkshops276
Factories Act, 1937 –
No. of inspections of factories295
" " " " Outworkers' Premises38
Intimations servedNil
No. of Intimations, P.H. (London) Act, 19365088
" " Statutory Notices1811
" " Re-inspections (all enactments)16189
Total number of visits25618

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WATER SUPPLY.
No complaints were made to the Public Health Department
as to the purity of the water supply provided by the Metropolitan
Water Board. All houses in Camberwell receive their water
supply from this source.