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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
Edmonton 1898
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Edmonton]
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General Sanitary Work.
The tables suggested by the County Medical Officer for the comparison of the work of the various districts in the County have been filled up and forwarded to him, the following table gives a summary of the more important items :—
| Specific complaints received | 89 |
| Inspections made, including re-inspections | 3200 |
| Letters written | 946 |
| Notices served, including statutory notices | 577 |
| Summonses served | 11 |
| Convictions obtained | 9 |
| Inspections of common lodging house | 77 |
| Removals of Gipsies | 437 |
| Seizures of unsound food (number of consignments) | 3 |
| Removal of bodies of persons dying of infectious disease to mortuary | 1 |
| Wells closed | 4 |
| Water laid on to houses | 10 |
| New cisterns provided | 3 |
| Draw taps removed to mains | 62 |
| Cisterns cleansed | 45 |
| Closets newly constructed | 13 |
| New apparatus provided | 88 |
| Closets repaired, cleansed and ventilated | 91 |
| Closets supplied with water or water supply improved | 68 |
| Repairs to drains | 651 |
| Cesspools cleansed | 9 |
| Cesspools abolished | 4 |
| Houses closed as unfit for habitation | 7 |
| Rooms disinfected | 161 |
| Articles disinfected or destroyed | 1568 |
| Sundry nuisances abated | 91 |
| Various repairs to houses | 161 |
| Total | 8346 |
The foregoing table is exclusive of work done in connection with
new buildings, and of work done pursuant to the provisions of the
Canal Boats Acts.