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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

Bethnal Green 1951

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Bethnal Green Borough]

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Table: TABLE 2.RECORD OF VISITS

TABLE 2.

RECORD OF VISITS

Notifiable Infectious Diseases792
Non-notifiable diseases198
Complaints as to insanitary conditions3,467
Pood Poisoning1
Aged and Infirm persons36
Pactories822
Mllkshops143
Other Pood premises1,099
Outworkers' houses153
Tenement houses18
Common Lodging Houses6
Drainage work2,345
Smoke observations1
Enquiries with regard to housing549
Other inspections and special work3,689
Slum Clearance Survey17
Re-Inspections12,349
Total25,685

Table: TABLE 3

TABLE 3

SANITARY DEFECTS IN CONNECTION WITH WHICH NOTICES WERE SERVED
Dirty rooms4,578
Defective drains and choked W.Cs.489
Defective and dirty W.Cs.912
Defective water supply81
Defective paving145
Defective gutters and rain water pipes965
Defective roofs1,832
Dampness1,743
Defective dustbins193
Other defects4,689
Total15,627