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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
Greenwich 1933
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Greenwich Borough]
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Total Number of Intimation Notices served for all purposes 937
„ „ „ Statutory „ „ „ 221
Overcrowding, 1933—
Number of Dwelling-rooms overcrowded 15
Number remedied 3
Number of Prosecutions —
Underground Rooms—
Illegal occupations found during year 4
Number of Rooms closed or illegal occupation discon
tinued 4
Insanitary Houses—-
Number closed under the Public Health (London) Act,
1891 —
Number of Closing Orders made —
Number demolished in pursuance of Orders —
Number demolished voluntarily 9
Number repaired or Nuisances remedied under Public
Health Act 1,316
Housing of the Working Classes—
(a) Erected during the year :—
Municipal 13
Private Enterprise 116
(b) In course of erection 120
Number of Verminous Premises cleansed under Section 10
of the London County Council (General Powers)
Act, 1922 80
Number of Cleansing Baths given under Cleansing of
Persons Act 6
Number of Children Cleansed 978
Shelter provided under Section 60 (4) of the Public Health
(London) Act, 1891—
Number of persons accommodated during the year
Number of Tenement Houses provided with Additional
Water Supply 1
Number of Prosecutions ditto -