Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Bethnal Green Borough]
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TABLE 4 Record of Visits
Notifiable Infectious Diseases | 450 |
Non-notifiable diseases | 82 |
Complaints as to insanitary conditions | 4,220 |
Food Poisoning | 13 |
Aged and Infirm persons | 85 |
Factories | 1,390 |
Milkshops | 548 |
Other Food premises | 1,255 |
Outworkers' houses | 225 |
Tenement houses | 106 |
Common Lodging Houses | 4 |
Drainage work | 3,727 |
Smoke observations | 1 |
Enquiries with regard to housing | 1,090 |
Other inspections and special work | 4,504 |
Slum Clearance Survey | 875 |
Re-inspections | 14,040 |
Total | 32,615 |
TABLE 5 Sanitary Defects in Connection with which Notices were Served
Dirty rooms | 7,593 |
Defective drains and chocked W.Cs. | 623 |
Defective and dirty W.Cs. | 1,271 |
Defective water supply | 214 |
Defective paving | 157 |
Defective gutters and rain water pipes | 713 |
Defective roofs | 1,806 |
Dampness | 1,612 |
Defective dustbins | 172 |
Other defects | 5,833 |
Total | 19,994 |
(4) Legal Proceedings.
On 51 occasions during the year it was necessary to take legal
proceedings to enforce compliance with the requirements of Notices
served.
In 11 of these cases Nuisance Orders were made by the
Magistrate with the infliction of fines and costs amounting to
£43 14s. 0d.