Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Lewisham Borough]
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The following table gives further information on certain sanitary
circumstances in the area:—
Table 14
Premises
No. in
borough on 31
Dec., 1948
No. of
inspections
No. of
prosecutions
Common lodging houses
Nil
—
—
Seamen's lodging houses
Nil
—
—
Cowsheds (licensed)
Nil
—
—
Slaughterhouses (licensed)
2
13
Nil
Other offensive trades
Nil
—
—
Milkshops (Purveyors 112, Dairies 76)
188
293
1
Icecream premises
247
505
Nil
Restaurants and eating houses
161
540
Nil
Registered foster-mothers*
56
388
Nil
Nurse children kept*
101
540
Nil
*To July 4, 1948.
Smoke nuisances
Number of observations 4
Number of intimations served Nil
Number of complaints received 16
Number of statutory notices served Nil
Number of legal proceedings —
Number of convictions —
Amount of penalty and costs imposed in each
case —
Cleansing and disinfection
Number of adults cleansed 273
Number of children cleansed 1,592
Number of premises cleansed:—
(a) after infectious diseases 583
(b) for vermin 179
Water supply to tenement houses
Number of premises supplied as a result of
health department action Nil
Number of prosecutions —