London's Pulse: Medical Officer of Health reports 1848-1972
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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 1960
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Westminster, City of]
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Sanitary Circumstances
Duties performed by the Public Health Inspectors.
The following statistics show the work of the Public Health Inspectors
luring the year:—
Dwelling Houses
| Analysis of Inspections:— | |
| Complaints | 761 |
| House to House (by Housing Inspectors) | 7 |
| Routine | |
| Infectious Disease | 153 |
| Underground Rooms | |
| Other parts unfit for habitation | 14 |
| Housing circumstances | 95 |
| Applications for Loans and Grants | 140 |
| Drainage | 575 |
| Rodent Control | 850 |
| Miscellaneous | |
| 3,054 | |
| Included in the above totals are:— | |
| Requisitioned properties | 1 |
| Houses let in lodgings | 107 |
| Council properties | 194 |
| Aged and Infirm Persons | 43 |
| Common Lodging Houses | 9 |
5,811 re-inspections were made following the above inspections.
| Public Health (London) Act, 1936 | 194 |
| Westminster City Council Byelaws as to Artificial Light ing of Common Staircases in Tenement Houses anc Flats | I 1 |
| Statutory Notices | 195 |
| 7 | |