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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 1958
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Holborn Borough]
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SECTION 4.
Sanitary Circumstances.
Visits made by the Public Health Inspectors during 1958.
Public Health (London) Act, 1936 Number of Inspections
Dwelling Houses 409
Houses Let in Lodgings 43
Common Lodging Houses 5
Offices 43
Rag and Bone Shops 20
Drainage Work and Testing 3,005
Other Inspections 873
Re-inspections of above 816
Housing Act, 1957 Number of Inspections
Houses 228
Underground Rooms10
Overcrowding Visits 35
Re-inspections of above 18
Factories Acts, 1937 and 1948 Number of Inspections
Power Factories 191
Re-inspections of above 44
Non-Power Factories 42
Outworkers' Rooms 10
Electrical Stations and Sites of Building Operations 180
Outworkers' Registers 18
Food and Drugs Act, 1955 Number of Inspections
Dairies and Milk Shops 54
Ice Cream manufacture 2
Ice Cream sale and storage 25
Restaurants and Kitchens 818
Bakehouses 18
Butchers' Shops 42
Fish Shops 4
Fried Fish Shops 4
Other Food Shops 326