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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
City of Westminster 1938
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Westminster, City of]
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Table LXI.-Medical Inspection of Aliens.
| Visitors | 4,144 | 4,127 | 67 |
| Business Visitors | 3,800 | 3,785 | 3 |
| Diplomatic | 496 | 494 | - |
| Seamen | - | - | - |
| Contract Seamen | 2 | 2 | - |
| Returning Residents | 684 | 681 | - |
| Males | 106 | 106 | 3 |
| Females | 71 | 71 | 9 |
| Children | 4 | 4 | - |
| Males | 218 | 215 | - |
| Females | 133 | 132 | 2 |
| Children | 33 | 33 | - |
| 285 | 284 | - | |
| Total | 9,976 | 9,434 | 84 |
| Rejected for all causes | - | - | - |
| Transmigrants | - | - | - |
| Grand Total | 9,976 | 9,934 | 84 |
The entire cost of this service is recoverable from the Ministry of
Health, and classified returns of the aliens medically inspected and
examined are made to the Ministry every half year.
Sanitary Inspection of the Area.
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The following table shows in detail matters relating to the
general sanitary conditions of the City. The work of the district
sanitary inspectors is performed under several main headings : inspection
of nuisances and other insanitary conditions, whether on complaint or
otherwise ; supervision of all new sanitary fittings and drainage in old
and new buildings, which includes reporting on plans of proposed sanitary
construction in respect of requirements of the Public Health (London)
Act, 1936, and the drainage, &c., by-laws of the London County Council,
duties connected with housing and infectious disease, factories,
workplaces, and others relating to the sanitary conditions of the City.
Details of inspections, &c., made under the Housing Acts during the
year appear in the Housing Section of this Report.