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Edmonton 1938

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Edmonton]

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Also a Public Convenience and Works Depot at Tramway Avenue were
completed and opened.
Plans for a new Fire and Ambulance Station are in course of preparation
and Plans are also being prepared for a Branch Library and Maternity
and Child Welfare Centre on the Ridge House site, and a Maternity and
Child Welfare Centre on the Forest Road site.
1 am indebted to the Borough Engineer and Surveyor for the information
which he has supplied me.
SANITARY INSPECTION IN THE AREA.
Four District Sanitary Inspectors are engaged in the Sanitary supervision
of the Borough, working under the supervision of the Senior Sanitary
Inspector.
The approval of the Ministry of Health was received in June to the
appointment of the Housing Inspector as a District Sanitary Inspector.
The Woman Sanitary Inspector looks after Outworkers' premises, the
sanitary condition of factories where women arc employed, the investigation
of notifiable infectious illnesses, including Tuberculosis. She also assists
the Senior Sanitary Inspector in the supervision of women's public conveniences.
The Senior Sanitary Inspector supervises the work of the Borough and
is Inspector under the Canal Boats Acts.

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

Complaints1740
Infectious disease504
Tuberculosis158
House-to-House100
Factories with mechanical power200
Factories without ,, ,,25
Other premises under the Factories Act12
Outworkers66
Schools11
Offensive Trades73
Shops and Stalls289
Shops Act (Primary)H5
Shops Act (Re-inspections)34
Smoke Observations99
Sanitary Conveniences and Urinals728
Stables36
Piggeries22
Gipsies32
Petroleum214
General Inspections566
Re-inspections6254
Sundry Visits...1862
Cinemas and Halls41
Visits to Canal42

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