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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SECTION C —SANITARY CIRCUMSTANCES OF THE AREA
The following table gives a summary of the inspections, etc., carried out by the public health inspectors during the year :—
Table 23
Reason for inspection | West | North | South | Total |
---|---|---|---|---|
On complaint | 1064 | 954 | 424 | 2442 |
House to house | — | — | — | — |
Improvement grants | 31 | 44 | 22 | 97 |
Houses let in lodgings | — | 1 | — | 1 |
Rent Acts | 330 | 184 | 113 | 627 |
Other Housing Act visits | 387 | 398 | 249 | 1034 |
Notice from builder | 297 | 228 | 85 | 610 |
Infectious diseases | 9 | 31 | 6 | 46 |
Infestation | 121 | 166 | 46 | 333 |
Factories, mechanical | 52 | 36 | 70 | 158 |
Factories, non-mechanical | 8 | 8 | 6 | 22 |
Outworkers | 101 | 41 | 60 | 202 |
National Assistance Act, S47 | — | 6 | 7 | 13 |
Smoke observations | 8 | 2 | 3 | 13 |
Clean air inspections | 1 | 996 | 2335 | 3332 |
Keeping of Animals | 3 | 13 | 10 | 26 |
Water certificates | 130 | 34 | 11 | 175 |
Fireguards | 17 | 14 | 9 | 40 |
Crash helmets | 14 | 19 | 13 | 46 |
Hairdressers | 35 | 6 | 12 | 53 |
Pharmacy and poisons | 66 | 73 | 2 | 141 |
Milkshops | 20 | 27 | 34 | 81 |
Icecream premises | 128 | 51 | 40 | 219 |
Restaurants and eating houses | 70 | 124 | 169 | 363 |
Bakehouses | 17 | 41 | 11 | 69 |
Other food shops | 252 | 345 | 489 | 1086 |
Other shops | 17 | 75 | 10 | 102 |
Food inspections | 91 | 325 | 128 | 544 |
Sampling | 105 | 235 | 152 | 492 |
Markets and stalls | — | 704 | 24 | 728 |
Slaughterhouses | — | 65 | — | 65 |
Futile visits | 816 | 2436 | 2269 | 5521 |
All other matters | 1236 | 1204 | 397 | 2837 |
Revisits | 5941 | 8106 | 2839 | 16886 |
Total — all inspectors | 11367 | 16992 | 10045 | 38404 |
Smoke abatement
Observations 13
Intimations served —
Complaints received 6
Statutory notices served —
Legal proceedings —
Convictions —