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 East Barnet]
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TABLE I
Table of Visits and Inspections made during the Year
Public Health | 1955 | 1956 |
Nuisances and Sanitary Defects | 4,478 | 4,236 |
Infectious Diseases | 175 | 235 |
Schools | 71 | 79 |
Smoke Observations | 53 | 47 |
Caravan Sites | 4 | 5 |
Brooks and Streams | 36 | 31 |
Verminous Premises | 12 | 7 |
Hairdressers and Barbers | 22 —4,851 | 21 —4,661 |
Housing | ||
Housing Act, 1936, Part 2 | 3,451 | 1,613 |
Permitted Numbers and Overcrowding | 18 | 21 |
Applicants for Housing (Special Cases) | 83—3,552 | 38—1,672 |
Food Hygiene | ||
Restaurants and Snack Bars | 315 | 352 |
Fish Shops | 166 | 208 |
Butchers' Shops | 274 | 325 |
Bakehouses | 51 | 93 |
Ice Cream Premises | 306 | 356 |
Other Food Shops and Premises | 758 | 831 |
Food Inspections | 173 | 185 |
Milk (Special Designations) Registrations | 115—2,158 | 112—2,462 |
Factories | ||
Factories | 231 | 194 |
Outworkers | 93— 324 | 81— 275 |
Infestations | ||
Rat and Mouse | 3,271 | 2,473 |
Insects | 226—3,497 | 276—2,749 |
Food and Drugs | ||
Sampling and in connection therewith | 513— 513 | 536— 536 |
Shops Acts | ||
Visits made | 765— 765 | 702— 702 |
15,660 | 13,057 |