London's Pulse: Medical Officer of Health reports 1848-1972
View report page
Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
St Pancras 1958
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for St. Pancras, Metropolitan Borough]
This page requires JavaScript
Visits by District Public Health Inspectors - Continued
Visits
Section 78, Housing Act, 1957
Overcrowding offences 14
Re-visits 16
Overcrowding abated 25
Compulsory Purchase Order Inspections 172
Inspections re Loans, Improvement Grants, etc. 422
Shops Acts 13
Inspections and re-inspections of food premises-
Public Houses 198
Office Canteens 22
Street traders' food stores 17
Hostels, boarding houses and hotels 2
Fruit and greengrocery stores 122
Confectioners (sweets) 59
Other food premises 11
Pharmacy and Poisons 132
Hairdressers and Barbers 101
Environmental Visits-
(a) Old and Infirm (Section 47, National Assistance Act, 1948) 9
(b) Blind persons 4
(c) Old Age Pensioners 76
(d) Tuberculous persons 171
(e) Housing applications 1,536
Special surveys and inspections 2,974
Other inspections and re-inspections 2,132
Total 36,651
Ineffective visits 3,901
Intimation Notices
(i) Housing and sanitary defects 2,449
(ii) Additional water supply to tenement houses (included in (i)) 10
Statutory Notices 1,094
33