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Sanitary Circumstances of the Area.
Sanitary Inspectors.
Total number of inspections (including war damage
to property, etc.) 9,648
Total number of re-inspections 15,559
Total number of intimation notices served 3,714
Total number of nuisance notices served 3,232
Women Sanitary Inspectors.
Total number of visits and inspections (factories,
workplaces, infectious disease, etc.) 1,991
Total number of re-visits 321
Total number of intimation notices served 122
Workshops in which defects were found 157
One male sanitary inspector is still lent to the billeting officer
and is engaged in repairs to requisitioned billets among his manv
other duties.
Public Health (London) Act, 1936, Section 224
No application was made for an order under this section.
Inspection and Supervision of Food.
The year 1945 marked the end of hostilities, and consequently
the end of many wartime diversions in connexion with the inspection
of food which had occupied much of the time and the ingenuity
of the Food Inspectors. Outstanding in these activities was the
establishment in 1940, at the request of the Ministry of Food, of
a Food Decontamination Service for the purpose of reconditioning
food contaminated with war gases. Happily it was never necessary
to put the scheme into operation. The service was disbanded in
June, 1945, and the Vauxhall stand at Kennington Oval, where a
Food Decontamination Centre had been established, was handed
back to the owners. In the early part of the year damage was
caused to food shops by sporadic flying bomb and rocket attacks.
Food in damaged premises was inspected, sorted and disposed of
according to its condition. Where food was found to be unfit for
human consumption certificates were issued to owners for the
purpose of establishing their claims with the War Damage
Commission.
One thousand, six hundred and sixty-two samples of food and
drugs (1,640 informal and 22 formal) were submitted to the Public
Analyst for analysis. The number of samples reported to be
adulterated was very small. In one case (British Wine) legal