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 Acton]
This page requires JavaScript
24
FACTORIES AND WORK SHOP ACTS.
Laundries, on complaint H.M. Inspector of Factories 43
Complaints registered 102
Notices served (supplemented by tetters, also personal interviews
with owners or their representatives) 107
ORDINARY NUISANCES.
Smoke 9
Manure, offal and other filth deposits 30
Overcrowding 7
Cellar flooding 5
Animals, Poultry, &c. 9
Dust bins 8
Cesspools abolished 2
Stopped up House Drains 111
Gas escape in sleeping apartments (dwellings) 14
Other nuisances not included with the above 23
GENERAL INSPECTIONS.
Schools 5
Bakehouses 34
Milk shops and dairies 37
(Found insanitary) 5
Slaughter houses 77
Piggeries 99
Stabling 37
Brickfields 10
Mineral Water Factory 3
ARTICLES OF FOOD CONDEMNED.
Considerable quantity of diseased Beef.
Several lots of tainted Beef and Pork.
Large parcel of Tomatoes.
2 Trunks Codlings
1 Trunk Whiting
1 „ Haddock
1 Barrel Skate
1 Trunk „
Signed, WILLIAM T. BOVEY,
Sanitary Inspector.