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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

Holborn 1928

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Holborn Borough]

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Table: Sanitary Inspectors' and Health Visitors' Work, Year1928.

Sanitary Inspectors' and Health Visitors' Work, Year1928.

Mr. BennettMr. ClarkMr. LarardMiss CharlesworthMiss StockwellTotal
Complaints received373035......102
Do. found to be justified352835......98
Inspection of Houses—
Dwelling-houses6115750......271
Houses let in lodgings306269198108...781
Common lodging-houses1423......19
Schools...12......3
Drains tested by water......1......1
Re underground rooms34.........7
„ Rent (Restriction) Act21.........3
„ New Buildings2............2
Factories—
Bakehouses10177......34
Food preparation (other than above)2...52......54
Other387325512...378
workshops and workplaces —
Food premises:
Dairies and Milkshops314718......96
Ice Cream, Manufacture515184......204
Do. Storage or Sale18...1......19
Slaughter-houses...2.........2
Hotels and Restaurant62119224......405
Butchers26714406......687
Bakehouses476......17
Fish shops141529......58
Fried Fish shops19199......209
Market Streets33570542......947
Licensed Premises...11......2
Other food shops22673119......418
Other workshops9414321493...544
Other workplaces97105137......339
Outworkers' Registers204956......125
Stable and Stable yards3678.........114
Rag and Bone shops7061......77
Outworkers' rooms †...23.........23
Offices1119141...45
Miscellaneous—
Black smoke9344295......432
Dust, Special Inspections20797......106
Rats and llice (Destruction) Act8220391......376
Sale of Food and Drugs Act, sampling210206191......607
Demolition of Buildings17711......35
Other Inspections1128...12
Periodical Inspections:
Includes W.C. and yards,dustbins, especially houses let in lodgings, and other suitable buildings1,6872,0822,501......6,270
Re-Inspections—
Houses63783956021...2,057
Factories41329......40
Workshops and Workplaces66245735...389
Offices...2.........2
Restaurants92216......47
Licensed premises...3.........3
Miscellaneous12323054193321
Inspections carried forward4.7605,0976,33530219316,687

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† All outworkers' rooms in houses let in lodgings (these comprise the larger majority), have
been inspected but the visits have been counted under inspections of houses let in lodgings.