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 385
Section 3 „ „ „ 130
Section 78 „ „ „
Overcrowding investigations 2
Re-visits 6
Overcrowding abated 40
Section 15, Housing Act, 1961 215
Housing Act, 1964 13
Shops Acts 53
Inspections and re-inspections of food premises-
Public houses 51
Hostels, boarding houses and hotels 5
Fruit and greengrocery stores 1
Confectioners (sweets) 2
Other food premises 55
Pharmacy and poisons 62
Club premises 36
Pet shops 5
Hairdressers and barbers 132
Betting shops 1
Outworkers' premises 135
Office Shops and Railway Premises Act, 1963 364
Change of user 4
Enviromental visits-
(a) Old and infirm (section 47, National Assistance Act, 1948) 9
(b) Old age pensioners 17
(c) Tuberculous persons 62
(d) Housing applications 84
(e) Blind persons 1
Special inspections re-
(a) House purchase on loan 328
(b) Improvement grants 203
(c) Proposed compulsory purchase orders 4
(d) Clearance area 29
(e) Rehabilitation areas 1,018
(f) Exhumations 188
Other inspections and re-inspections 1,650
Total 27,749
Ineffective visits 1,352
Intimation Notices-
(i) In respect of house to house inspections 121
(ii) Housing and sanitary defects 1,345
(iii) Additional water supply to tenement houses 2
Statutory Notices 764
Attendances at Magistrate's Court 46
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