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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

St Pancras 1950

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for St. Pancras, Metropolitan Borough]

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43
SECTION 4.
Sanitary Administration.

Table: Visits by District Sanitary Inspectors.

Visits by District Sanitary Inspectors.

Complaints received6,734
Complaints Investigated— Whole house inspections102
Whole house re-inspections77
Part of house inspections6,588
Part of house re-inspections18,907
House to House Inspections— Tenement houses inspections38
Tenement houses re-inspections7
Dwelling houses inspections28
Dwelling houses re-inspections28
Infectious Disease— Investigations616
Inspection of premises28
Re-inspections104
Drainage— (a) Under Notice. Plans, Supervision, etc.3,344
(b) Voluntary3,374
(c) New buildings1,508
(d) Tested— (i) After I.D.11
(ii) For other reasons644
Shops Acts— First inspections80
Re-inspections55
Pharmacy and Poisons— First inspections62
Re-inspections101
Public Houses— First inspections12
Re-inspections315
Smoke Observations57
Environmental Visits— (a) Old and Infirm (Section 47, National Assistance Act, 1948)—
First visits52
Subsequent visits35
(b) Blind versons109
(c) Old Age pensioners200
(d) Tuberculous persons246
(e) Housing applications1,732