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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

Hornsey 1951

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Hornsey, Borough of]

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Table: SANITARY INSPECTIONInspections made during the year were as follows:—

SANITARY INSPECTION

Inspections made during the year were as follows:—

Food
Food Premises (See table on next page)935
Registration of Hawkers27
Infectious Diseases
Notifiable Infectious Diseases310
Smallpox contacts20
Food Poisoning30
Scabies and Verminous Persons1
Dysentery276
Sanitary Inspections
Complaints1,782
Drainage482
Water Tests applied59
Smoke and Chemical Tests58
Rodent Control183
Surveys (Permitted numbers)62
Overcrowding conditions55
Building Licences66
Shops Acts1,262
Factories235
Outworkers340
Cinemas, Halls, etc., Renewal of Music and Dancing Licences30
Rent Restrictions Acts1
Moselle Pollution5,739
Smoke Observations32
Stables and Urinals1
Verminous conditions13
Pests28
Under Rag, Flock etc. Act, 195112
Other Reasons325
Housing
Housing Inspections (See table on page 50)2,188
Camps bourne Clearance Area31
Others
Petroleum Stores154
Re-inspections
Moselle Pollution1,287
For all other purposes6,933
TOTAL VISITS22,957