London's Pulse: Medical Officer of Health reports 1848-1972
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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 1954
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for St. Pancras, Metropolitan Borough]
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SECTION 4
Sanitary Circumstances
Visits by District Sanitary Inspectors during 1954.
Complaints received 4800
Complaints Investigated -
Whole house inspections 362*
Whole house re-inspections 386
Part of house inspections 4,438
Part of house re-inspections 15,445
House to House Inspections -
Tenement house inspections 180*
Tenement house re-inspections 124
Dwelling house inspections 59*
Dwelling house re-inspections 55
Infectious Disease -
Investigations 406
Inspection of premises 32*
Re-inspections 54
Drainage -
(a) Under Notice. Plans, Supervision, etc. 3,909
(b) Voluntary 5,382
(c) New buildings 3,039
(d) Tested -
(i) After infectious disease 6
(ii) For other reasons 406
Shops Acts -
First inspections 10
Re-inspections 18
Pharmacy and Poisons -
First inspections 61
Re-inspections 96
Public Houses -
Inspections 19
Smoke Observations 243
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