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
Greenwich 1937
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Greenwich Borough]
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| Number of adults cleansed | 5 |
| Number of children cleansed | 1,745 |
| Number of premises cleansed— | |
| After infectious disease | 562 |
| For vermin | 220 |
| Number of Premises supplied | 24 |
| Number of Prosecutions | — |
| Number of houses in the Borough | 21,630 |
| Number of houses occupied by the working classes | 16,522 |
| 2,512 | |
| Number of Statutory Notices served | 187 |
| Number of houses repaired or nuisances remedied | 1,858 |
| Number of houses inspected—house to house. (Housing Consolidated Regs. 1925) | 191 |
| Do. (Housing Act) | 391 |
| Number of houses included in representations by Medical Officer of Health under Sec. 25 of H. A. 1936 | 165 |
| Number of houses demolished following representation | |
| of Medical Officer of Health under Sec. 25 of H. A. | |
| 1936 | 95 |
| Number of houses repaired under Sections 9 and 10 of Housing Act, 1936 :— | |
| By Owners | 23 |
| By Local Authority in default of Owners | — |
| Number of houses demolished :— | |
| (a) In pursuance of Orders under Sec. 11 of H. A. 1936 | 6 |
| (6) Voluntarily | 1 |
| Number of houses (wholly or in part) the subject of Closing Orders (excluding underground rooms) | 21 |
| Number of Closing Orders determined | — |