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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 1960

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for St. Pancras, Metropolitan Borough]

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SECTION 4
Sanitary Circumstances

Table: Visits by District Public Health Inspectors during 1960

Visits by District Public Health Inspectors during 1960

Complaints received3,249
Complaints Investigated -Visits
Whole house inspections340*
Whole house re-inspections22
Part of house inspections2.909
Part of house re-inspections9,636
House to House Inspections -
Inspections162*
Re-inspections8
Infectious Disease -
Investigations425
Inspection of premises95*
Re- inspect ions29
Small -pox contacts75
Drainage -
(a) Under Notice, Plans, Supervision, etc.2,446
(b) Voluntary6,986
(c) New Building3,263
(d) Tested-
(i) After infectious disease5
(ii) For other reasons591
Smoke Observations69
Rent Act. 1957145
Prevention of Damage by Pests Act, 1949182
Inspections re Closing or Demolition Orders1,510
*Recorded as house-to-house inspections,