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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 1950
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Lambeth Borough]
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Sanitary Circumstances of the Area
| Sanitary Inspectors. | |
| Total number of inspections | 12,346 |
| Total number of reinspections | 32,992 |
| Total number of intimation notices served | 5,405 |
| Total number of nuisance notices served | 2,339 |
| Women Sanitary Inspectors. | |
| Total number of visits and inspections (factories, workplaces, infectious disease, etc.) | 1,961 |
| Total number of revisits | 336 |
| Total number of intimation notices served | 56 |
| Total number of nuisance notices served | — |
| Workshops in which defects were found | 56 |
The present conditions for the ordinary property owner are
now worse than ever before. Houses are filled to capacity with
the increased wear and tear which naturally follows. Moreover,
they are getting older and nearer the end of useful existence more
quickly than new houses are being constructed. The cost of
repairs—themselves increasing—is rising while rents are fixed at a
level wholly out of keeping with realities. The exigency is one
which demands serious attention. Old and worn houses patched
over and over again cannot be expscted to last and may
give way in numbers if subjected to severe gales.
Scabies and Verminous Persons
Cleansing Centre.
A total of 231 persons were treated at the cleansing station and
given 352 treatments, compared with 351 persons treated in the
previous year.
There has again been a noticeable fall in the number of cases of
scabies notified, 40, compared with 68 in 1949, 125 in 1948, 310 in
1947, 758 in 1946 and 851 in 1945. More settled conditions of life
and modern treatments have both conduced to this end.