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Barking 1908
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Barking]
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Annual Report
OF THE
SANITARY INSPECTOR.
Public Health Department,
Barking.
To the Chairman and Members of the Barking Town Urban
District Council.
Gentlemen,
I have pleasure in presenting my Annual Report of the work
carried out in the Public Health Department for the year ended
December 31st, 1908.
Inspections.
Tha number of inspections made during the year was 2592,
these include house to house inspections, houses in which Infectious
disease occurred, workshops, houses which have been the
subject of complaint, and miscellaneous inspections.
In 1864 of the houses inspected, sanitary defects were discovered,
and to effect the remedying of these defects it was necessary
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