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Havering 1969

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Havering]

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ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH
Sanitary Circumstances
The general sanitary supervision in the Borough has been
well maintained during the year and in this connection some
33,499 inspections have been made under the following headings:Clean
Air Act 4,989
Public Health Acts 7,324
Food & Drugs Acts 5,281
Prevention of Damage by Pests Act 3,447
Offices, Shops & Railway Premises
Act, 1963 2,092
Shops Acts 2,362
Infectious Diseases 1,142
Housing Acts 757
Sampling 1,789
Factories Act 502
Noise Abatement 337
Diseases of Animals Act 51
Miscellaneous 1,308
Slaughterhouses & Meat Inspection 1,898 (not including the
inspections of 2
Authorised Meat
Inspectors based
permanently at
slaughterhouses)
Consumer Protection Acts 220
33,499
As a consequence of these inspections 729 intimation
notices were served and in 110 instances these were followed
up by statutory notices as follows:-
Informal Statutory
Public Health Acts 209 109
Housing Acts Nil Nil
Food & Drugs Act 72 ”
Shops Act 212 ”
Offices, Shops & Railway ” ”
Premises Act, 196 3 206 ”
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