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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 1954

[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 Diseases402
Non-notifiable diseases7
Food Poisoning6
Complaints as to insanitary conditions2,627
Aged and Infirm persons29
Factories686
Milkshops640
Other Food premises2,239
Outworkers' houses279
Tenement houses165
Drainage work2,417
Smoke observations13
Enquiries with regard to housing2,571
Other inspections and special work2,507
Re-Inspections7,905
Total22,491

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TABLE 3
SANITARY DEFECTS IN CONNECTION WITH WHICH
NOTICES WERE SERVED
Dirty and/or dilapidated rooms 2,115
Defective drains and chokcd W.C.'s 208
Defective and dirty W.C.'s 1,010
Defective water supply 123
Defective paving 53
Defective gutters and rain water pipes 323
Defective roofs 740
Dampness 997
Defective dustbins 153
Smoke Nuisances 6
Other defects 2,329
Total 8,057