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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 1955
[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 1955.
Complaints received 4,008
Complaints Investigated -
Whole house inspections 283
Whole house re-inspections 457
Part of house inspections 3,725
Part of house re-inspections 11,954
House to House Inspections -
Tenement house inspections 118*
Tenement house re-inspections 33
Dwelling house inspections 30*
Dwelling house re-inspections 11
Infectious Disease -
Investigations 381
Inspection of premises 23*
Re-inspections 58
Drainage -
(a) Under Notice. Plans, Supervision, etc 2,326
(bj Voluntary 4,134
(cJ New buildings 3,003
(d) Tested -
(i) After infectious disease 4
(ii) For other reasons 499
Shops Acts -
First inspections 1
Re-inspections 11
Pharmacy and Poisons
First inspections 41
Re-inspections 104
Public Houses -
Inspections 27
Smoke Observations 57
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