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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 1957
[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 1957
Complaints received 3,865
Visits
Complaints Investigated-
Whole house inspections 319*
Whole house re-inspections 360
Part of house inspections 3,546
Part of house re-inspections 11,594
House to House Inspections-
Tenement house inspections 193*
Tenement house re-inspections 185
Dwelling house inspections 68*
Dwelling house re-inspections 149
Infectious Disease-
Investigations 576
Inspection of premises 57*
Re-inspections 32
Drainage-
(a) Under Notice. Plans, Supervision, etc. 1,570
(b) Voluntary 4,958
(c) New Building 4,722
(d) Tested-
(i) After infectious disease
(ii) For other reasons 494
Smoke Observations 151
Smokeless zone surveys 266
Housing Repairs and Rents Act 1954 212
Prevention of Damage by Pests Act, 1949 189
Section 11, Housing Act, 1936 7
Section 12, Housing Act, 1936-
Inspections (other than underground rooms) 19
Re-inspections 65
Underground rooms 363
Re-inspections 1,715
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