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
Ealing 1948
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Ealing]
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| Number of Houses inspected under House-to-House Survey | 2 |
| Food Inspections | 1,412 |
| Total Number of Re-inspections | 12,353 |
| Other Inspections | 2,662 |
| Total Number of Inspections and Re-inspections | 20,138 |
| Number of Intimation Notices given | 1,604 |
| Number of other Letters written | 2,066 |
| Number of Statutory Notices served | 327 |
| Proceedings before Magistrates | 14 |
| Control of Civil Building. | |
| The Sanitary Inspectors dealt with all applications for building licences which involved work for which Statutory Notices under the Public Health Act could have been served. | |
| In this connection Certificates of Essentiality were issued during the year in respect of 874 houses at an estimated cost of £68,158 15s. 8d. | |
| Milk and Dairies Act, Etc. | |
| Number of Retail Purveyors of Milk on Register | 76 |
| Number of Inspections of Retail Purveyors' Premises | 182 |
| Contraventions of Act or Orders | — |
| Proceedings before Magistrates | — |
| Slaughterhouses. | |
| Number of Registered Slaughterhouses | 2 |
| Number of Inspections made | — |
| Contraventions of Regulations | — |
| Proceedings before Magistrates | — |
| Factories and Workshops. | |
| Factories with Mechanical Power | 424 |
| Factories without Mechanical Power | 124 |
| Number of Inspections of Factories and Workplaces | 275 |
| Number of Defects concerning which Notices were sent | 13 |
| Proceedings before Magistrates | — |
| Disinfection. | |
| Rooms Disinfected by Spray:— | |
| (a) Ordinary Infectious Disease | 9 |
| (ib) Tuberculosis | 82 |
| (c) Other Conditions | 93 |
| Rooms treated for Vermin | 85 |
| Articles Disinfected by Steam at Disinfector:— | |
| (a) Ordinary Infectious Disease | 43 |
| (b) Tuberculosis | 130 |
| (c) Other Conditions | 213 |
| Articles voluntarily destroyed | 147 |