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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 1956
[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 1956.
| Districts | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | Total. | |
| Primary Inspections | ||||||||
| Complaints | 232 | 192 | 179 | 367 | 222 | 194 | 279 | 1,665 |
| Infectious Disease | 55 | 59 | 76 | 46 | 243 | 168 | 57 | 704 |
| Notice of Builder | 65 | 27 | 60 | 94 | 84 | 25 | 36 | 391 |
| Factory (Power) | 1 | 35 | 21 | 15 | 21 | 21 | 7 | 121 |
| Factory (Non-Power) | – | 3 | 7 | 2 | 2 | 7 | 7 | 28 |
| Food Premises | 14 | 19 | 59 | 109 | 69 | 282 | 53 | 605 |
| Butcher's Premises | 1 | 1 | 9 | 8 | 5 | 90 | 11 | 125 |
| Ice Cream Premises | 6 | 3 | 8 | 27 | 12 | 40 | 10 | 106 |
| Milk Premises | 3 | 3 | 9 | 18 | 8 | 2 | 12 | 55 |
| Bakehouses | – | 2 | – | 1 | 1 | 5 | – | 9 |
| Fish Premises | – | 4 | 4 | 11 | 1 | 5 | 1 | 26 |
| Offensive Trades | – | – | – | – | 24 | – | – | 24 |
| Comm. Lodg. Houses | – | – | – | – | 13 | – | – | 13 |
| Outworkers | 5 | 15 | 17 | 17 | 2 | – | 2 | 58 |
| Shops Act Inspections | 9 | 75 | 38 | 79 | 51 | 259 | 46 | 557 |
| Special Housing Inspections | 30 | 15 | 16 | 12 | 42 | 24 | 14 | 153 |
| Hairdressers & Barber's Premises | – | 6 | 10 | 11 | 5 | 9 | 5 | 46 |
| Pharmacy & Poisons Act Inspections | 1 | – | 2 | 3 | 5 | 5 | 4 | 20 |
| Pet Animal Act Inspections | – | 1 | 5 | – | 2 | 3 | – | 11 |
| Housing Repairs and Rents Act Inspections | 5 | 2 | 1 | 7 | 2 | – | 4 | 21 |
| Miscellaneous | 302 | 301 | 246 | 178 | 201 | 264 | 75 | 1,567 |
| Total | 729 | 763 | 767 | 1,005 | 1,015 | 1,403 | 623 | 6,305 |
| Re-Inspections, Calls, etc. | 3,260 | 3,885 | 1,861 | 3,174 | 3,588 | 1,726 | 3,763 | 21,257 |
| Notices Served—Public Health (London) Act, 1936 Intimation | 119 | 131 | 78 | 194 | 164 | 173 | 159 | 1,018 |
| Statutory | 40 | 31 | 22 | 89 | 93 | 69 | 59 | 403 |
| London County Council (General Powers) Act, 1954 Section 12 | 5 | 2 | – | 14 | 9 | 6 | 12 | 48 |
| Premises in Respect of Which Notices were completed | 123 | 126 | 75 | 218 | 195 | 146 | 196 | 1,079 |
| Premises in Respect of Which Notices were Outstanding at the End of the Year | 50 | 29 | 13 | 20 | 17 | 51 | 22 | 202 |