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 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:—
Complaints | 1740 |
Infectious disease | 504 |
Tuberculosis | 158 |
House-to-House | 100 |
Factories with mechanical power | 200 |
Factories without ,, ,, | 25 |
Other premises under the Factories Act | 12 |
Outworkers | 66 |
Schools | 11 |
Offensive Trades | 73 |
Shops and Stalls | 289 |
Shops Act (Primary) | H5 |
Shops Act (Re-inspections) | 34 |
Smoke Observations | 99 |
Sanitary Conveniences and Urinals | 728 |
Stables | 36 |
Piggeries | 22 |
Gipsies | 32 |
Petroleum | 214 |
General Inspections | 566 |
Re-inspections | 6254 |
Sundry Visits... | 1862 |
Cinemas and Halls | 41 |
Visits to Canal | 42 |
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