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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
Hendon 1942
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Hendon]
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SANITARY INSPECTIONS OF THE AREA.
The following summary of the inspection work performed by the Sanitary Inspectors has been submitted to mo by Mr.G.E.Luck, Chief Sanitary Inspector.
| Inspections made | 8144 |
| Reinspections after order or notice | 9093 |
| Complaints received & investigated | 1888 |
| No-answer visits | 1409 |
| Nuisances discovered and dealt with | 2909 |
| Inspections of air raid shelters | 908 |
| Visits paid to infected houses | 429 |
| Infected rooms disinfected | 445 |
| Cesspools emptied | 126 |
| Choked drains cleared by Local Authority for the abatement of urgent nuisances | 201 |
| NOTICES SERVED. | |
| Informal or cautionary | 921 |
| Complied with | 812 |
| Outstanding 1942 | 109 |
| statutory notices | |
| Applied for | 65 |
| Served, under Public Health Acts etc | 16 |
| Outstanding from 1941 | 2 |
| Complied with | 15 |
| Outstanding 1942 | 3 |
DISINFESTATION
Treatment of Verminous houses.
The following houses were successfully treated:-
Privately-owned 46
Council houses 7
Number of separate
treatments given
168
Inspections were made of furniture and bedding and rooms in the occupation
of tenants before their removal into Council houses and disinfestation was performed
where necessary.
Work of disinfestation is done by the Local Authority and where verminous
conditions were discovered,these cases were followed up after removal.
factories act, 1037.
Number of inspections. 331
Notices served to remedy defects. 47
Notices complied with. 39
Matters notified by H.M.Inspector
of Factories. 15
List of Outworkers received. 21
Outworkers premises inspected. 181