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 1955
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Enfield]
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| Swimming Baths | 7 |
| Milk (Liquid) | 9 |
| Ice-Cream | 12 |
| Miscellaneous Foodstuffs | 21 |
The following list of repairs executed during the course of the year shows that the defects found as the result of the Sanitary Inspectors' visits were varied and general in character.
| Houses or parts of houses cleansed, repaired, etc. | 346 |
| Roofs repaired | 303 |
| Gutters and downpipes repaired | 183 |
| Dampness remedied | 287 |
| Floors repaired | 95 |
| Yards paved or made good | 36 |
| Dustbins provided or renewed | 44 |
| Improvements effected in Food Preparing premises | 2 |
| Drains—Examined | 248 |
| Tested—Smoke | 62 |
| Water | 40 |
| Reconstructed | 5 |
| Repaired, etc. | 192 |
| Vents repaired | 9 |
| Cesspools repaired | 1 |
| Cesspools emptied and tested | 2 |
| Sink wastes repaired | 20 |
| New sinks provided | 9 |
| Water-closets—New ones provided | 12 |
| New pans provided | 46 |
| Apparatus repaired or renewed | 73 |
| Water—Cisterns cleansed, covered, etc. | 10 |
| Water laid on or restored | 13 |
| Nuisances—Fowls, etc., removed | 1 |
| Manure, etc., removed | 5 |
| Ditches, etc., cleaned out | 2 |
| Other nuisances abated—Stoves, etc., repaired or renewed | 42 |
| Windows repaired or renewed | 268 |
| Gipsy vans removed | 91 |
| Overcrowding abated | 2 |
| Miscellaneous | 159 |
| Wasps Nests destroyed | 115 |
| Houses demolished | 30 |
| Houses or parts of houses closed | 7 |