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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1. Refuse Collection and Disposal | 29 |
(a) Costs | 29 |
(b) Details of Refuse Collection Vehicles | |
and staff | 29 |
(c) Details of tonnage | 30 |
2. Trade Refuse | 30 |
3. Salvage | 30 |
4. Public Conveniences | 31 |
5. Sanitary Inspection of the Area | 31 |
(a) Visits by Public Health Inspectors | 31 |
(b) Premises visited and results of such | |
visits | 32 |
(c) Summary of Nuisances abated and | |
defects remedied during the year | 32 |
(d) Drainage, Closet accommodation | |
and Cesspools | 32 |
(e) Atmospheric Pollution | 33 |
(f) Smoke Abatement | 33 |
(g) Swimming Baths and Pools | 34 |
(h) Offensive Trades | 35 |
(i) Rag Flock and Other Filling | |
Materials Act, 1951 | 35 |
(j) Pet Animals Act, 1951 | 36 |
(k) Camping Sites | 36 |
(l) Hop Pickers | 36 |
(m) Rodent Control | 36 |
(n) Pest Control | 37 |
(o) Eradication of Bed Bugs | 38 |
(p) Heating Appliances (Fireguards) | 38 |
Act 1952 and Regulations 1953 | |
(q) Mosquito Control | 38 |
6. Shops Act, 1950 | 38 |
7. Sanitary Accommodation at Offices | 39 |
8. Street Trading | 39 |
9. River Thames- Effuvia | 40 |
10. Factories | 41 |
(i) Inspections | 41 |
(ii) Defects found | 41 |
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10. Laboratory Facilities 27
11. Mortuary 28
12. Disinfection Services 28
13. Welfare of Old People 28
14. National Assistance Act, 1948, Section
50 (Burials) 28