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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 1936

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Edmonton]

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Table: The following tabular statement gives the number and the nature of the Inspections made during the year:—

The following tabular statement gives the number and the nature of the Inspections made during the year:—

Complaints1,600
Infectious Disease349
Tuberculosis281
House-to-House19
Factories232
Workshops21
Workplaces4
Outworkers288
Schools7
Offensive Trades81
Shops Act (Primary)43
,, (Re-inspections)2
Shops and Stalls197
Smoke Observations26
Sanitary Conveniences, urinals472
Stables13
Piggeries28
Gipsies15
Petroleum192
General Inspections996
Re-inspections5,231
Sundry visits2,514
Cinemas and halls45
Visits to canal23
Inspections of Places where Food is Prepared.
Butchers176
Fish shops75
Coffee shops2
Ice cream shops149
Dairies and milkshops127
Slaughterhouses125
Bakehouses40
Number of Notices served were:—
Preliminary or informal notices1,271
Statutory notices335
Defects Remedied.
Houses repaired, cleansed, etc.642
D.W. cisterns repaired, covered14