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 Erith]
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D Hospital and Ambulance Facilities.
1. General 25
2. Venereal Diseases 25
3. Ambulance Service 25
4. Mortuary 25
E Sanitary Circumstances of the Area.
1. Refuse Collection and Disposal 26
(a) Costs 26
(b) Details of Refuse Collection Vehicles
and Staff 26
(c) Details of Tonnage 27
2. Trade Refuse 27
3. Salvage 27
4. Public Conveniences 27
5. Sanitary Inspection of the Area
(a) Visits by Sanitary Inspectors 28
(b) Premises visited and results of such visits 28
(c) Summary of Nuisances and Defects
remedied during the year 28
(d) Offensive Trades 29
(e) Closet accommodation and Cesspools 29
(f) Smoke Abatement 29
(g) Swimming Baths and Pools 30
(h) Camping Sites 30
(i) Hop Pickers 30
(j) Rag Flock Act 30
(k) Eradication of Bed Bugs 30
(1) Cleansing of Verminous Persons 31
(m)Mosquito Control 31
(n) Rodent Control 31
6. Housing
(a) Inspection of Dwelling Houses during
the year 32
(b) Remedy of Defects during the year 32
(c) Rent and Mortgage Interest
tions) Act, 1939 33
7. (a) Factories 34
(i) Inspection 34
(ii) Defects found 34
(b) Shops Act, 1912—1938 35
(c) Offices 35
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