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 Hornsey, Borough of]
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SANITARY INSPECTION OF THE AREA.
The following statement of the work of the Sanitary
Inspectors has been prepared by Mr. Henry Eastwood, Chief
Sanitary Inspector:—
The visits made, the notices served and the sanitary improvements carried out are recorded in the following tables:—
Visits.
House-to-house inspections | 439 |
Special inspections | 981 |
Re-inspections | 10,323 |
Transfer to Council houses | 13 |
Notifiable infectious diseases | 204 |
Tuberculosis | 70 |
Deaths | 93 |
Verminous houses | 21 |
Scabies | 1 |
Shops Act | 678 |
Factories, workshops and outworkers | 556 |
Rent Restriction Act | 6 |
Cinemas, etc. | 15 |
Overcrowding | 182 |
Petroleum stores | 182 |
Rag Flock Act | 4 |
Dairies and milkshops | 42 |
Bakehouses | 42 |
Slaughter-houses | 324 |
Butchers' shops | 86 |
Restaurant kitchens | 26 |
Other food shops | 285 |
Annual licences (Music and Dancing) | 47 |
Stables | 43 |
Urinals | 15 |
Smoke observations | 11 |
Refuse tips | 230 |
Passages | 35 |
Allotments | 4 |
Drainage | 91 |
Fee tests | 5 |
House pests | 43 |