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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 1926
Seventy-first annual report on the health and sanitary condition of the Metropolitan Borough of Islington
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75 [1926
Underground Rooms—
Number illegally occupied 10
Number closed or illegal occupation discontinued 10
Overcrowding—
Number of cases of overcrowding found 26
Number remedied 26
Number of prosecutions Nil
Smoke nuisances—
Number of observations 121
Number of complaints 52
Number of notices 2
Number of summonses Nil
Cleansing and Disinfection—
Number of adults cleansed 6
Number of children cleansed 4,634
Number of premises cleansed:—
(a) After infectious diseases 3,442
(b) For vermin 91
Water supply to tenement houses—
Number of premises supplied 57
Number of prosecutions Nil
Sanitary officers—
Chief Sanitary Inspector (Whole time) 1
Number of Sanitary Inspectors (Whole time) Male, 19 Female 2
„ ,, (Part time) Male, Nil Female Nil
Number of Health Visitors (Whole Time) 9
„ „ (Part time) Nil
Tuberculosis Visiting Nurse(Whole time) 1