London's Pulse: Medical Officer of Health reports 1848-1972
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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
Enfield 1952
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Enfield]
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New sinks provided 9
Washing facilities provided in food-stores —
Water-closets—New ones provided 13
New pans provided 35
Apparatus repaired or renewed 65
Water—Cistern provided —
Cisterns cleansed, covered, etc. 1
Wells cleansed, repaired, etc.
Water laid on or restored 6
Nuisances—Fowls, etc., removed 3
Manure, etc., removed 9
Ditches, etc., cleaned out —
Other nuisances abated—Stoves repaired or renewed 65
Windows repaired or renewed 230
Gipsy vans removed 40
Overcrowding abated 2
Miscellaneous 118
Wasps Nests destroyed 113
Houses demolished 2
NOTICES ISSUED
Statutory (Insanitary Conditions) 99
Informal ( Do. ) 610
Other Notices (Infectious Diseases) 4,408
5,117
Other Letters sent 2,655
Number of Certificates issued in connection with plans Nil
Number of Certificates issued in connection with disinfection
1
Number of Certificates issued in connection with unsound
foods 871
Number of Requisitions for Information dealt with 1,812
Number of Certificates issued under Rent Restrictions
Acts, 1920 to 1939 2
Result of Service of Statutory and Informal Notices :—
Statutory. Informal.
Number complied with 77 449
Number outstanding 22 161
99
610