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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 1954

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

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Table: SECTION 4.Sanitary Circumstances. Visits made by the Sanitary Inspectors during 1954.

SECTION 4.

Sanitary Circumstances. Visits made by the Sanitary Inspectors during 1954.

Public Health (London) Act, 1936.Number of Inspections.
Dwelling Houses436
Houses Let in Lodgings312
Common Lodging Houses3
Offices37
Rag and Bone Shops21
Smoke Observations135
Drainage Work and Testing3,239
Other Inspections1,769
Re-inspections of above1,532
Housing Acts, 1936-1949.Number of Inspections.
Houses140
Underground Rooms16
Overcrowding Visits63
Re-inspections1
Factories Acts, 1937 and 1948.Number of Inspections
Power Factories99
Re-inspections of above64
Non-Power Factories11
Re-inspections of above13
Outworkers' Rooms8
Electrical Stations and Sites of Building Operations96
Outworkers' Registers2
Food and Drugs Act, 1938.Number of Inspections.
Dairies and Milk Shops61
Ice Cream sale and storage25
Restaurants and Kitchens1,377
Bakehouses75
Butchers' Shops176
Fish Shops46
Fried Fish Shops22
Other Food Shops702