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 1956
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for St. Pancras, Metropolitan Borough]
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SECTION 4
Sanitary Circumstances
Visits by District Public Health Inspectors during 1956
Complaints received 4,919
Complaints Investigated
Whole house inspections 378*
Whole house re-inspections 504
Part of house inspections 4,541
Part of house re-inspections 13,628
House to House Inspections
Tenement house inspections 168*
Tenement house re-inspections 313
Dwelling house inspections 63*
Dwelling house re-inspections 41
Infectious Disease:-
Investigations 322
Inspection of premises 4*
Re-inspections 10
Drainage -
(a) Under Notice. Plans, Supervision, etc. 1,945
(b) Voluntary 4,581
(c) New building 2,925
(d) Tested -
(i) After infectious disease 3
(ii) For other reasons 322
Shops Acts -
First inspections 1
Re-inspections 4
Pharmacy and Poisons
First inspections 53
Re-inspections 85
Public Houses -
Inspections 25
Smoke Observations
Smokeless zone survey 256
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