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 Hendon]
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The following summary of the inspection work performed
by the Sanitary Inspectors in connection with environmental
health, food inspection, etc., has been submitted to me by Mr.
A. H. Smith, Chief Sanitary Inspector.
In the report for 1950 attention was drawn to the increasing
difficulty in getting essential work carried out due to the
continued rise in the cost of material, labour, etc., whilst the
rents of controlled dwellings remain stationary.
These factors still prevail to-day to even a greater extent.
During the course of the year under review inspections were carried out as set out below:—
Inspections made | 6,220 |
Re-inspections after order or notice | 11,322 |
Complaints received and investigated | 1738 |
Bakehouses | 87 |
Butchers Shops | 433 |
Caravans | 47 |
Dairies | 81 |
Drain Tests | 232 |
Factories | 222 |
Hawkers and Food Delivery Vans | 69 |
Hawkers Storage Premises and Stalls | |
Ice Cream samples | 108 |
Ice Cream Premises | 114 |
Infectious Disease | 449 |
Licensed Premises | 62 |
Milk Samples | 242 |
Other Food Shops | 1,337 |
Overcrowding | 149 |
Outworkers | 79 |
Piggeries | 26 |
Public Entertainment in connection with licensing | 96 |
Restaurants, Cafes, etc. | 287 |
Smoke Observations | 82 |
Stables | 2 |
Swimming Baths | 35 |
Notices Served: | |
Informal or cautionary | 937 |
Complied with | 809 |