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 Chislehurst]
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SANITARY INSPECTION OF THE AREA.
Full details of the work carried out by the Inspectors will be
found in Table VI in the appendix.
The following is a summary of the totals under the respective headings :—
Total number of Inspections and Visits. | |
---|---|
Housing | 4,639 |
Infectious Diseases | 884 |
Food Premises, Sampling, Visits, etc | 2,151 |
Factories, Outworkers, etc. | 366 |
Moveable Dwellings | 671 |
Smoke Abatement and Shops Act | 655 |
Rodent Control | 1,536 |
Miscellaneous | 523 |
11,425 |
Notices issued :—
Preliminary: | |
General Sanitary Defects | 184 |
Food Premises | 226 |
Shop Premises | 27 |
Factories, etc | 9 |
Rodent Control | 24 |
470 | |
Statutory: | |
Public Health Act | 10 |
Housing | 0 |
480 | |
Food Condemnation Certificates issued | 518 |
The number of shops within the meaning of the Act, existing at the 31st December, 1956, was 830. They are situated as follow :—
Lamorbey and Blackfen | 258 |
Sidcup and Footscray | 277 |
North Cray and St. Paul's Cray | 96 |
Chislehurst and Mottingham | 199 |
830 |