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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
Chislehurst 1937
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Chislehurst]
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1 water supply
47 rats
7 overcrowding
1 food
50 various
362 Total
3. Notices.
665 Informal Notices were served, drawing the attentions
of property owners and others to the existence of nuisances
and requesting abatement.
It was found necessary to serve 11 Statutory Notices under
the Public Health Acts to secure the abatement of nuisances
where Informal Notices had not received compliance. In one
instance (absence of a proper water supply) it was found
necessary to resort to legal proceedings, in consequence of
which a fine of 10s. was imposed.
| Sanitary accommodation: (i) Insufficient | 4 |
| (ii) Defective | 39 |
| Drainage: (i) Reconstructed | 5 |
| (ii) Repaired | 38 |
| (iii) Cleaned | 85 |
| (iv) Provided | 5 |
| Cesspools: (i) Cleaned | 10 |
| (ii) Reconstructed | 2 |
| (iii) Abolished | 2 |
| (iv) Provided | 2 |
| Baths, lavatory basins and sinks | 24 |
| Yard paving | 26 |
| Moors | 45 |
| Sub-floor ventilators | 12 |
| Walls and ceilings redecorated | 130 |
| Walls and ceilings repaired | 104 |
| Dampness, roofs, walls and rainwater pipes | 159 |
| Verminous premises | 52 |
| Refuse receptacles | 41 |
| Water supplies | 14 |
| Keeping of animals | 3 |
| Offensive accumulations | 8 |
| Fruit pickers' huts | 43 |
| Rats | 43 |
| Windows | 104 |
| Various | 66 |