Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for St. Pancras, Metropolitan Borough]
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Visits by District Public Health Inspectors - Continued
Visits
Section 9, Housing Act, 1957 494
Section 3,,,,,, 57
Section 78, Housing Act, 1957
Overcrowding investigations 16
Re-visits 2
Overcrowding abated 125
Section 15, Housing Act, 1961 462
Shops Acts 205
Inspections and re-inspections of food premises-
Public houses 78
Office canteens 6
Hostels, boarding houses and hotels 10
Fruit and greengrocery stores 15
Confectioners (sweets)15
Other food premises 139
Pharmacy and poisons 100
Club premises 65
Hairdressers and barbers 48
Outworkers' premises 289
Office surveys 84
Enviromental visits-
(a) Old and infirm (Section 47, National Assistance Act, 1948)5
(b) Old age pensioners 49
(c) Tuberculous persons 66
(d) Housing applications 151
Special inspections re-
(a) House purchase on loan 309
(b) Improvement grants 285
(c) Proposed compulsory purchase orders 324
(d) Clearance area 29
(e) Rehabilitation areas 178
Other inspections and re-inspections 1,616
Total 32,144
Ineffective visits 1,840
Intimation Notices-
(i) In respect of house to house inspections 162
(ii) Housing and sanitary defects 1,855
(iii) Additional water supply to tenement houses 7
(iv) Smoke abatement 1
Statutory Notices 1,166
Attendances at Magistrate's Court 46
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