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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
Lambeth 1914
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Lambeth, Metropolitan Borough of]
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SUMMARY OF WORK DONE BY THE MALE SANITARY
INSPECTORS DURING 1914.
Inspections 8183
Re-inspections 62237
Complaints attended to 4541
Cases of Infectious Disease notified 4066
Cases of Non-Notifiable Diseases Dealt with 5277
Rooms disinfected 9276
Bedding, etc., disinfected 5985
Bedding, etc., destroyed 60
Drains tested (with chemical, water or both) 7679
Sanitary Works completed 5224
Plans of drainage reconstructions received and approved 255
Premises the Drains of which have been totally or partly
reconstructed 306
Samples of Food and Drugs submitted to Analyst 1841
Notices—
Sanitarv Work (Preliminary or Intimation 7497 and
Statutory 3505) 11002
Infectious Diseases (Public Health Act, 1891) 4066
Metropolis Local Management Acts 41
Sanitary Nuisances abated—
(a) Structural 10175
(b) Non-Structural 6478
Summonses issued—
Public Health Act *11
Food and Drugs Acts †39
Convictions obtained—
Public Health Act 10
Food and Drugs Acts 29
Vide also Section of Report dealing with the Housing, Town
Planning &c., Act, 1909.
* 1 summons was withdrawn on defendant paying the cost,
† Vide Summary of legal proceedings taken under the Sale of Food and
Drugs Acts.