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 1958

[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 Diseases486
Non-notifiable diseases–
Food Poisoning11
Complaints as to insanitary conditions1,869
Aged and Infirm persons33
Factories787
Milkshops235
Other Food Premises1,588
Outworkers' houses31
Tenement houses156
Drainage work2,497
Smoke observations69
Enquiries with regard to housing704
Other inspections and special work1,802
Re-inspections5,718
Shops Act inspections254
Total16,240

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

TABLE 3 SANITARY DEFECTS IN CONNECTION WITH WHICH NOTICES WERE SERVED

Dirty and/or dilapidated rooms825
Defective drains and choked w.c.'s101
Defective and dirty w.c.'s497
Defective water supply40
Defective paving98
Defective gutters and rain water pipes392
Defective roofs555
Dampness547
Defective dustbins89
Smoke Nuisances–
Other defects.1,943
Total5,069