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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
Lambeth 1925
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Lambeth Borough]
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Water Certificates issued1 150
| Revenue Act certificates dealt with | — |
| Drains tested (with chemical, water or smoke test) | 4677 |
| Sanitary Works completed | 5696 |
| Samples of Food and Drugs taken | 2005 |
| Notices— | |
| Public Health (London) Act, 1891 (Preliminary or Intimation 5928 and Statutory 3818) | 9746 |
| Metropolis Local Management Acts | 21 |
| Sanitary Nuisances abated— | |
| 7769 | |
| (b) Non-structural | 3628 |
| Summonses issued— | |
| Public Health Act† | 5 |
| Food and Drugs Acts‡ | 9 |
| Margarine Acts§ | 1 |
N.B.—In addition to the above, the 12 District Sanitary Inspectors
carried out during 1925 routine duties connected with the inspecting
of unsound and unwholesome food, the supervision of bakehouses,
slaughter houses, cow-houses, dairies, milk shops and milk stores,
ice-creameries, the market thoroughfares, outside urinals of publichouses,
smoke, the male public conveniences, factories and workshops,
and work-places wherein males are employed, common
lodging-houses, offensive trades, effluvium nuisances, houses let in
lodgings, exempted tenements (Revenue Act), refuse and manure
depots, etc. No new houses were registered under the by-laws for
houses let in lodgings.
* Including 207 houses (7 being in blocks) and 207 tenements.
† convictions, and 1 summons withdrawn.
‡ 5 convictions, and 4 summonses dismissed.
1 conviction.
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