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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INSPECTIONS NECESSITATED BY WAR CONDITIONS.
Rest Centres | 4 |
Salvage Sack Sites | 292 |
Survey of Unoccupied Houses | 680 |
Landlord & Tenant (War Damage) Amendment Act, 1941 | 148 |
Air Raid Shelters | 326 |
Fuel and Lighting Order | 56 |
Food Shops Damaged | 2 |
First Aid Repairs | 378 |
Control of Building Operations (No. 2) Order, 1944 | 498 |
Visits re Certificates of Essentiality | 97 |
Building Licences | 266 |
10,667 |
NOTICES.
The Notices served during the year are as follows:β
Under theβ Verbal Preliminary Statutory
Public Health and Housing Acts 167 602 38
Housing Byelaws β 3 β
167 605 38
SUMMARY OF SANITARY IMPROVEMENTS CARRIED OUT.
DRAINAGE.
Number of houses and premises redrained | 2 |
Repairs or amendments to existing drains | 25 |
Drains or gullies unstopped or cleansed | 64 |
Manholes provided | 9 |
Manholes repaired | 14 |
Intercepting traps fixed | 6 |
New gulley traps fixed | 15 |
New soil pipes and ventilating shafts fixed | 6 |
Soil pipes and ventilating shafts repaired | 9 |
WATER-CLOSETS AND SANITARY FITTINGS. | |
New water-closet buildings | 2 |
New water-closet basins fixed | 54 |
Water-closets unstopped, cleansed or repaired | 33 |
New sinks provided | 19 |
New lavatory basins provided | 13 |
Waste-pipes trapped, repaired or unstopped | 42 |
Waste-pipes diverted into proper drain | 8 |
Baths provided or made usable | 1 |
Urinals cleansed | 3 |
MISCELLANEOUS. | |
Roofs repaired | 103 |
Eaves guttering renewed, cleansed or repaired | 51 |
Rain-water pipes provided, repaired | 32 |
Damp walls remedied | 48 |
Damp-proof courses inserted | 6 |
Paving of yards repaired | 14 |
Premises structurally repaired | 211 |