London's Pulse: Medical Officer of Health reports 1848-1972

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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

Barnet 1968

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Barnet]

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INSPECTIONS AND COMPLAINTS
Some 5817 complaints and requests for services were investigated and, where possible,
defects or unsatisfactory conditions were remedied.

Table: The following table shows the nature and number of inspections made to ensure that people live and work in healthy surroundings, and that food is manufactured or prepared under hygienic conditions and sold in premises properly equipped.

The following table shows the nature and number of inspections made to ensure that people live and work in healthy surroundings, and that food is manufactured or prepared under hygienic conditions and sold in premises properly equipped.

Housing
Public Health and Housing Acts6,749
Multiple Occupation1,131
Other housing visits1,4229,302
Clean Air
Observations324
Surveys, proposals and claims5,191
Other clean air visits8,98414,499
Food Premises
Bakehouses and bakers shops132
Butchers305
Dairies and Milkshops54
Grocers383
Ice Cream89
Restaurants, Cafes384
School Meals Kitchens and Canteens349
Stalls132
Unsound Food180
Other food premises visits5632,571
Factories
Powered/non-powered787
Sites18
Outworkers136941
Offices, Shops and Railway Premises2,635
Drainage
Drainage and Plumbing Works1,640
Cesspools7042,344
Infectious Diseases1,752