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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
Deptford 1955
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Deptford Borough]
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TABLE II Summary of Sanitary Work Carried Out During the Year 1955
| Districts | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | Total | |
| Primary Inspections | ||||||||
| Complaints | 235 | 220 | 230 | 409 | 262 | 228 | 285 | 1,869 |
| Infectious Disease | 48 | 10 | 27 | 23 | 30 | 11 | 25 | 174 |
| Notice of Builder | 79 | 33 | 56 | 83 | 52 | 42 | 38 | 383 |
| Factory (Power) | 8 | 21 | 36 | 28 | 32 | 7 | 8 | 140 |
| Factory (Non-Power) | 3 | – | 11 | 4 | 2 | 8 | 1 | 29 |
| Food Premises | 17 | 83 | 82 | 74 | 95 | 243 | 12 | 606 |
| Butcher's Premises | 3 | 12 | 30 | 20 | 11 | 22 | 3 | 101 |
| Ice Cream Premises | 4 | 15 | 11 | 27 | 20 | 18 | – | 95 |
| Milk Premises | 2 | 23 | 6 | 20 | 15 | 2 | – | 68 |
| Bakehouses | 1 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 4 | 5 | – | 15 |
| Fish Premises | – | 7 | 15 | 10 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 39 |
| Offensive Trades | – | – | – | – | 30 | – | – | 30 |
| Comm. Lodg. Houses | – | – | – | – | 8 | – | – | 8 |
| Outworkers | 55 | 15 | 24 | 63 | 13 | 2 | 1 | 173 |
| Shops Act Inspections | 18 | 116 | 84 | 109 | 108 | 294 | 15 | 744 |
| Special Housing Inspections | 58 | 14 | 35 | 37 | 55 | 30 | 33 | 262 |
| Pharmacy & Poisons Act Inspections | 2 | – | – | 1 | 5 | 1 | – | 9 |
| Pet Animal Act Inspections | 1 | 1 | 3 | – | 3 | – | – | 8 |
| Housing Repairs and Rents Act Inspections | 8 | 1 | 7 | 16 | 9 | 4 | 17 | 62 |
| Miscellaneous | 303 | 86 | 252 | 133 | 171 | 225 | 107 | 1,277 |
| Total | 845 | 658 | 912 | 1,058 | 930 | 1,143 | 546 | 6,092 |
| Re-Inspections, Calls, etc. | 3,316 | 4,220 | 1,973 | 2,594 | 3,349 | 2,715 | 3,847 | 22,014 |
| Notices Served—Public Health (London) Act, 1936 Intimation | 143 | 164 | 79 | 214 | 181 | 180 | 189 | 1,150 |
| Statutory | 47 | 28 | 26 | 113 | 94 | 71 | 67 | 446 |
| London County Council (General Powers) Act, 1954 Section 12 | 6 | 1 | 4 | 12 | 3 | 10 | 8 | 44 |
| Premises in Respect of Which Notices were Completed | 134 | 183 | 93 | 235 | 211 | 143 | 205 | 1,204 |
| Premises in Respect of Which Notices were Outstanding at the End of the Year | 46 | 25 | 14 | 32 | 36 | 74 | 48 | 275 |