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 1957
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for St. Pancras, Metropolitan Borough]
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Visits by District Public Health Inspectors- Continued
Section 59, Housing Act, 1936- Visits
Overcrowding offences 9
Re-visits 18
Overcrowding abated 7
Compulsory Purchase Order Inspections 200
Shops Acts 12
Inspections and re-inspections of food premises-
Public Houses 758
Office Canteens 28
Street traders' food stores 46
Hostels, boarding houses and hotels 37
Fruit and greengrocery stores 266
Confectioners (sweets) 228
Other food premises 50
Pharmacy and Poisons 127
Hairdressers and Barbers 129
Environmental Visits-
(a) Old and Infirm (Section 47, National Assistance Act, 1948) 3
(b) Blind persons 2
(c) Old Age Pensioners 43
(d) Tuberculous persons 183
(e) Housing applications 989
Other inspections and re-inspections 2,663
Total 37,608
*Recorded as house-to-house inspections
Ineffective visits 3,021
Intimation Notices
(i) Housing and sanitary defects 2,656
(ii) Additional water supply to tenement houses
(included in (i)) 46
Statutory Notices 1,171
33