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
Islington 1927
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Lewisham Borough]
This page requires JavaScript
14
Midwives.—No midwives are subsidized by the Council
for outside work.
Acts and Bye-laws—There are no local Acts of Parliament.
The Bye-laws of the London County Council are enforced, as
also are various local Bye-laws relating to sanitary matters.
Sanitary Inspection of the Borough.
The work carried out by the Sanitary Inspectors, and
the nature of the nuisances discovered and remedied, is shown
in detail in the following tables : —
| Complaints | 1,167 |
| Infectious Diseases | 1,052 |
| House-to-house | 1,377 |
| Factories and Workshops | 2,313 |
| Bakehouses | 212 |
| Dairies | 350 |
| Cowhouses | 24 |
| Slaughterhouses | 566 |
| Food-stalls | 925 |
| Houses let in Lodginigs | 42 |
| Smoke Observations | 24 |
| New Houses, for Water Certificates | 1,740 |
| Miscellaneous | 1,152 |
| Re-inspections and re-visits | 12,671 |
| Complaints | 233 |
| Infectious Diseases | 892 |
| Factories and Workshops | 300 |
| Outworkers | 346 |
| Miscellaneous | 139 |
| Re-visits | 613 |