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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

Hayes 1925

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Hayes]

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Table: 2.—INSPECTION OF DISTRICT.

2.—INSPECTION OF DISTRICT.

Number of houses and premises inspected (ordinary)419
Number of houses inspected and particulars recorded (H.T.P. &c., A. 1909 & H.A. 1925)108
Number of houses and premises re-inspected617
,, miscellaneous visits372
,, visits to works in progress344
,, food inspections310
„ visits to slaughter-house359
,, visits to dairies, cowsheds and milkshops42
,, visits to bakehouses13
„ visits to workshops and workplaces18
,, visits to factories5
,, visits to homeworkers premises3
,, visits re cases of infectious disease43
„ smoke observations66
„ drains examined4
„ tested with water or smoke3
Total2,726

Table: 3.-NOTICES SERVED.

3.-NOTICES SERVED.

Informal notices254
Statutory notices under Section 36, Public Health Act, 1875, to provide a sufficient dust receptacle56
Statutory notices under Section 94, Public Health Act, 1875, to abate nuisance14
Statutory notices under Section 41, Public Health Act, 1875, or Section 45, Public Health Acts Amendments Act, 1907, to examine and test drains2
Statutory notices under Section 41, Public Health Act, 1875, to re-lay drains3
Statutory notices under Section 28, Housing, Town Planning, etc., Act, 1919, or Section 3, Housing Act, 1925, to make premises reasonably fit for human habitation39
Statutory notices under Section 11, Housing Act, 1925, that a Closing Order had been made2
Total370