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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 1952

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

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Table: TABLE 2RECORD OF VISITS

TABLE 2

RECORD OF VISITS

Notifiable Infectious Diseases637
Non-notifiable diseases76
Food Poisoning5
Complaints as to insanitary conditions3,142
Aged and Infirm persons17
Factories685
Milkshops520
Other Food premises2,655
Outworkers' houses576
Tenement houses61
Drainage work2,010
Smoke observations2
Enquiries with regard to housing649
Other inspections and special work2,910
Re-inspections10,659
Total24,604

Table: TABLE 3SANITARY DEFECTS IN CONNECTION WITH WHICH NOTICES WERE SERVED

TABLE 3

SANITARY DEFECTS IN CONNECTION WITH WHICH NOTICES WERE SERVED

Dirty rooms3,997
Defective drains and choked W.C.'s276
Defective and dirty W.C.'s1,371
Defective water supply132
Defective paving130
Defective gutters and rain water pipes551
Defective roofs1,079
Dampness1,636
Defective dustbins181
Other defects4,849
Total14,202