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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
Lewisham 1949
[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 16
Premises
No. in
borough on 31
Dec., 1949
No. of
inspections
No. of
prosecutions
Common lodging houses
Nil
—
—
Seamen's lodging houses
Nil
—
—
Cowsheds (licensed)
Nil
—
—
Slaughterhouses (licensed)
2
8
—
Other offensive trades
Nil
—
—
Milkshops and Dairies
185
174
2
Icecream premises
279
580
1
Restaurants and eating houses
233
335
—
Smoke nuisances
Number of observations 19
Number of intimations served —
Number of complaints received 7
Number of statutory notices served —
Number of legal proceedings —
Number of convictions —
Cleansing and disinfection
Number of adults cleansed 163
Number of children cleansed 1,649
Number of premises cleansed :—
(a) after infectious diseases 943
(b) for vermin 326
Water supply to tenement houses
Number of premises supplied Nil
Number of prosecutions —