London's Pulse: Medical Officer of Health reports 1848-1972
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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 1953
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Bethnal Green Borough]
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TABLE 2
RECORD OF VISITS
Notifiable Infectious Diseases 670
Non-notifiable diseases 44
Food Poisoning 4
Complaints as to insanitary conditions 2,745
Aged and Infirm persons 52
Factories 1,235
Milkshops 565
Other Food premises 2,973
Outworkers' houses 361
Tenement houses 57
Drainage work 2,868
Smoke observations
Enquiries with regard to housing 879
Other inspections and special work 3.140
Re-inspections 11,207
Total 26,807
TABLE 3
SANITARY DEFECTS IN CONNECTION WITH WHICH
NOTICES WERE SERVED
Dirty and/or dilapidated rooms 2,553
Defective drains and choked W.C.'s 241
Defective and dirty W.C.'s 1,039
Defective water supply 65
Defective paving
Defective gutters and rain water pipes 371
Defective roofs 866
Dampness ., 1,l8l
Defective dustbins 171
Smoke Nuisances 8
Other defects 2,627
Total 9,182