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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
Islington 1947
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Islington Borough]
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Hydrogen Cyanide Chamber.
No cyanide fumigations were carried out during the year, and negotiations have
been initiated for the large cyanide chamber to be transferred to another Department
of the Council.
WORK OF SANITARY INSPECTORS ADMINISTERING FACTORIES ACT,
1937, AND OTHER RELEVANT ACTS.
7,430 inspections and re-inspections were made by these Inspectors during the year. These are summarised as follows:—
| Coffee and Dining Rooms | 505 |
| Factories (Mechanical) | 2,723 |
| Factories (Non-mechanical) | 780 |
| Other premises under Factories Act, 1937 | 1 |
| Fish Curers | 9 |
| Fried Fish Shops | 158 |
| Half-Way Houses | 7 |
| Hotel & Restaurant Kitchens | 172 |
| Noise Nuisances | 45 |
| Outworkers | 974 |
| Provisions | 34 |
| Rats and Mice (Destruction) Act, 1919—Factories | |
| Refreshment Rooms | 514 |
| Smoke Nuisances | 167 |
| Special Inspections (Food Licences) | 407 |
| Miscellaneous | 848 |
| Total | 7,430 |
(See separate sections On Underground Bakehouses and Offensive Trades).
2,515 defects or contraventions were found. A summary, under statutory enactments, is as follows:—
| Factories Act, 1937 Food and Drugs Act, 1938 | 1,123 865 |
| Public Health (London) Act, 1936 | 527 |
| Total | 2,515 |
832 Notices were served. These are summarised below:—
| Factories Act, 1937 | 271 |
| Food and Drugs Act, 1938 | 289 |
| Public Health (London) Act, 1936 Total | 272 832 |
1,840 defects or contraventions were remedied, as follows:—
| Factories Act, 1937 | 984 |
| Food and Drugs Act, 1938 | 505 |
| Public Health (London) Act, 1936 | 351 |
| Total | 1,840 |
The following Notices were also served and complied with:—
| Rats and Mice (Destruction) Act, 1919 | 5 |