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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
East Barnet 1956
[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 | |