Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for St. Pancras, Metropolitan Borough]
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Visits by District Sanitary Inspectors - Continued
Environmental Visits -
(a) Old and Infirm (Section 47, National Assistance Act, 1948) -
First visits 8
Subsequent visits 9
(b) B1ind persons 2
(c) Old Age Pensioners 63
(dJ Tuberculous persons 212
(e) Housing applications 547
Mews and Stable Yards 2
Housing Repairs and Rents Act 1954
Inspections 187
Re-inspections 520
Prevention of Damage by Pests Act, 1949
Inspections 73
Re-inspections 24
Section il. Housing Act, 1936
Inspections 3
Re-inspections 1
Section 12, Housing Act, 1936
Inspections (other than underground rooms) 5
Re-inspections 46
Underground rooms 213
Re-inspections 1,365
Section 59, Housing Act, 1936
Overcrowding offences 26
Re-visits 2
Overcrowding abated 55
Special Survey and C.P.O. inspections 341
2,170
Other inspections and re-inspections
Total 33,154
Recorded as house-to-house inspections
Ineffective visits 3,588
Intimation Notices Served
(i) Housing and sanitary defects 3,122
(ii) Additional water supply to tenement houses
(included in (i) ) 68
Number of Statutory Notices 1,501
Number of Attendances at Police Court
(a) Applications for summonses 5
(b) Hearings 74
Housing Repairs and Rents Act 1954
Certificates of disrepair issued 101
Revocation certificates issued 27
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