London's Pulse: Medical Officer of Health reports 1848-1972

View report page

Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London

Holborn 1961

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

This page requires JavaScript

Text

Copy text to clipboard

26
SECTION 4.
Sanitary Circumstances.

Table: Visits made by the Public Health Inspectors during 1961.

Visits made by the Public Health Inspectors during 1961.

Public Health (London) Act, 1936Number of Inspections
Dwelling Houses223
Houses Let in Lodgings29
Common Lodging Houses3
Offices30
Rag and Bone Shops18
Drainage Work and Testing3,927
Noise Nuisance Visits58
Other Inspections662
Re-inspections of above481
Housing Acts, 1957—1961Number of Inspections
Houses146
Underground Rooms30
Overcrowding Visits13
Re-inspections of above30
Factories Acts, 1937—1961Number of Inspections
Power Factories73
Re-inspections of above23
Non-Power Factories6
Re-inspections of above3
Outworkers' Rooms—
Electrical Stations and Sites of Building Operations120
Outworkers' Registers6
Food and Drugs Act, 1955Number of Inspections
Dairies and Milk Shops7
Ice Cream manufacture-
Ice Cream sale and storage19
Restaurants and Kitchens325
Bakehouses6
Butchers' Shops29
Fish Shops4
Fried Fish Shops5
Other Food Shops121
Market Streets53
Licensed Premises55
Sampling254
Unsound Food108
Re-inspections of above69