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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

Islington 1924

Sixty-ninth annual report on the health and sanitary condition of the Metropolitan Borough of Islington

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67 [1924

Table: Smoke nuisances—

Smoke nuisances—

Number of observations180
Number of warnings (letters sent)8
Number of notices11
Number of nuisances and complaints29
Number of summonses2

Table: Underground Rooms—

Underground Rooms—

Number illegally occupied6
Number closed or illegal occupation discontinued6
Prosecutions4

Table: Overcrowding—

Overcrowding—

Number of rooms overcrowded13
Number remedied13
ProsecutionsNil

Table: Cleansing—

Cleansing—

Number of adults cleansed10
Number of children cleansed4,614

Table: Cleansing—

Cleansing—

Number of rooms or premises cleansed (L.C.C. General Powers Act, 1922)91

Table: Water supply to tenement houses—

Water supply to tenement houses—

Premises supplied60
ProsecutionsNil

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Sale of Food—
Number of premises used other than ice cream premises, milk shops
and cowsheds 636
Number of inspections 18,397
Ophthalmia neonatorum regulations—
Number of Notifications received during the year from certified mid-
wives 6
Sanitary officers—
Number of Sanitary Inspectors (Whole time) Male, 19 Female 2
t, ,, (Part time) Male, Nil Female Nil
Number of Health Visitors Whole time, 7 Part time Nil
Disinfection Shelter provided under Sec. 60 (4) of the Public Health
(London) Act, 1891—
Number of persons accommodated during the year Nil
Revenue Acts—
Number of houses for which application were received during year 3
Number of tenements comprised therein 17
Number of tenements for which certificates were (a) granted 2
(b) refused 15
(c) deferred -