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City of Westminster 1971

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Westminster, City of]

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Table 6.—Night and out of office hours emergency service—Analysis of calls made to Duty Officers

Month 1971	Social Services Departments						Health Departments						Miscellaneous		Total
	Mental Health		Child Care		Welfare		Public Health Inspectors		Midwives		District Nurses		Miscellaneous		Total
	*W	K	W	K	W	K	W	K	W	K	W	K	W	K	W	K
January	209	105	138	31	31	6	46	4	18	22	273	2	127	11	842	181
February	255	126	85	21	30	3	30	1	18	31	242	3	90	10	750	195
March	255	149	97	42	21	2	50	1	17	32	242	1	114	9	796	236
April	241	128	138	44	47	10	26	1	20	7	255	—	146	11	873	201
May	281	137	112	42	35	5	47	1	26	15	276	1	149	11	926	212
June	199	137	106	28	34	1	32	1	19	19	252	—	100	8	742	194
July	261	90	120	48	47	4	59	5	17	7	347	1	176	27	1,027	182
August	262	37	135	41	43	2	59	5	19	16	400	1	228	8	1,146	110
September	203	33	131	24	38	3	43	1	21	17	342	3	171	7	949	88
October	257	48	135	26	38	3	51	2	30	10	415	1	199	6	1,125	96
November	230	88	101	28	29	13	50	3	28	28	389	—	118	12	945	172
December	177	154	86	34	21	6	24	2	21	28	380	2	164	22	873	248
Total - 1971	2,830	1,232	1,384	409	414	58	517	27	254	232	3,813	15	1,782	142	10,994	2,115
1970	2,697	1,521	1,166	295	256	45	531	41	370	225	3,130	20	1,634	127	9,784	2,274

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* "W" refers to calls relating to the City of Westminster
"K" refers to calls relating to the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea

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Table 7.—Dwelling Houses—Reason for Initial Inspection

	1971	1970
Complaints	2,784	2,812
Routine	737	604
Smoke Control	200	112
Infectious Disease	499	305
Underground Rooms	127	165
Application for Grants and Loans	303	190
Housing circumstances	938	1,342
Drainage	2,797	964
Rodent Control	216	468
Miscellaneous	658	355

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Table 8.—Dwelling Houses—Nuisances and unsatisfactory conditions found anti remedied

	1971	1970
Houses, damp, dirty or dilapidated	215	270
Doors, windows, floors, ceilings, firegrates defective	1,051	860
Insufficient or unsuitable W.C. accommodation	36	13
Drains, W.C.S and waste pipe stoppages	117	189
Drains, W.C.s and waste pipe defective	225	275
Yard, area and washhouse defects	12	32
Roofs, gutters and rainwater pipes defective	291	278
Water supplies absent or insufficient	6	7
Water cisterns dirty or defective	19	27
Ashpits, dustbins, etc., insufficient or defective	47	56
Rubbish accumulations	169	200
Animal nuisances	16	10
Miscellaneous	379	396