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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 1935
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Greenwich Borough]
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Return Made to London County Council.
Proceedings during 1935.
Premises
No. in Borough
at end 1935
No. of
Inspections
No. of
Prosecutions
Common lodging houses
1
6
—
Seamen's lodging houses
—
—
—
Cowsheds (licensed)
3
4
—
Slaughterhouses (licensed)
2
290
—
Other Offensive Trades
2
4
—
Milkshops
175
261
—
Ice Cream Premises
128
140
—
Restaurants and Eating houses
74
174
—
Registered Foster Mothers
46
227
—
Nurse Children kept
47
Smoke Nuisances.
Number of observations
31
Number of Intimations served
1
Number of Statutory Notices served
—
Number of Complaints received
13
Number of legal proceedings
—
Cleansing and Disinfection.
Number of adults cleansed
28
Number of children cleansed
1,688
Number of premises cleansed—
After infectious disease
704
For Vermin
383
Water Supply to Tenement Houses.
Number of Premises supplied
131
Number of Prosecutions
—
Number of houses in the Borough
20,142
Number of houses occupied by the working classes
15,981
Public Health (London) Act, 1891.
Number of houses inspected on account of complaints
or illness
2,743
Number of Statutory Notices served
205
Number of houses repaired or nuisances remedied
1,714