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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
Chelsea 1953
Annual report of the Medical Officer of Health for the year 1953
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SANITARY ADMINISTRATION OF THE BOROUGH
SUMMARY OF WORK PERFORMED BY THE SANITARY INSPECTORS DURING
THE YEAR 1953.
| Number of complaints received during the year:- | 1,186 | |
| INSPECTIONS AND REVISITS : | ||
| DWELLINGS: | ||
| House inspected after complaints | 4,279 | |
| House inspected after Infectious Disease | 848 | |
| House-to-House inspections | 1,212 | |
| Underground Rooms | 167 | |
| Overcrowding and "Permitted Numbers" | 177 | |
| Visits to obtain information re Housing Application | 177 | |
| Lodging Houses | 14 | |
| Inspection of council flats for vermin | 112 | |
| Other visits | 78 | 7,064 |
| FOOD PREMISES: | ||
| But chers | 136 | |
| Horseflesh Dealers | 8 | |
| Fishmongers and Fish Friers | 38 | |
| General Provision Shops, Including Delicatessen Shops | 142 | |
| Dairies and General Stores selling Milk | 237 | |
| Ice Cream Vendors (Premises, Stalls, Vehicles, etc.) | 413 | |
| Ice Cream Manufacturers | 27 | |
| Bakehouses and Underground Bakehouses | 66 | |
| Street Stalls and Barrows | 43 | |
| Food Delivery Vehicles | 7 | |
| Food Factories (Mechanical) other than Bakehouses | 16 | |
| Food Factories (Nca-Mechanieal) other than Bakehouses | 3 | |
| Hotels, Restaurants and Dining Rooms | 763 | |
| Premises in connection with Unsound Food | 536 | |
| Premises in connection with Sampling | 200 | |
| Other Food Premises | 76 | 2,711 |
| FACTORIES AND OUT WORKERS | ||
| Factories - other than Food Factories (Mechanical) | 232 | |
| Factories-other than Food Factories (Non-mechanical) | 137 | |
| Outworkers | 60 | |
| Other visits (not classified) | 2 | 431 |
| DRAINAGES | ||
| Drains tessted - by water | 265 | |
| Drains tessted - by smoks | 124 | |
| Drains tessted - by air | 71 | |
| Drains traced - by colour | 45 | 505 |
| Carried forwards | 10,711 | |