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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

Erith 1915

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Erith]

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Table: The following tables have been prepared by the Inspector of Nuisances, and summarise the matters dealt with during the year:—

The following tables have been prepared by the Inspector of Nuisances, and summarise the matters dealt with during the year:—

Houses visited for the detection of nuisances720
Houses inspected under the Housing and Town Planning Act964
Slaughterhouses97
Cowsheds, dairies and milkshops41
Workshops53
Outworkers' premises6
Bakehouses31
Offensive trades38
Vans, tents and sheds used for human habitation87
Complaints enquired into168
Result of above Inspections.
Nuisances detected612
Preliminary notices served to abate nuisances323
Statutory notices served to abate nuisances51
Nuisances abated581
Notices issued in respect of vans, tents and sheds14
Notices complied with14
Notices issued under the Dairies, Cowsheds and Milkshops Order5
Notices complied with5
Notices issued under the Factory and Workshops Act4
Notices complied with4
Notices issued to provide proper receptacles for house refuse126
Notices complied with112
Notices issued to properly pave and drain yards24
Notices complied with15
Number of prosecutions7
Nuisances.
Showing the number and nature of the nuisances dealt with during the year by notices served under the Public Health Acts:—
Defective and choked drains227
To repair damp and dilapidated dwellings123
To pave yards24
To provide water to and repair w.c. cisterns35
To repair rainwater guttering and downpipes58
To remedy insanitary water cisterns for domestic use31
To repair scullery sinik wastes48