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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 1958
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Hendon]
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The following table sets out the number of housing applicants assisted during the year ending 31st December 1958.
| (a) Families rehoused into permanent accommodation: | |
| Pre-war properties | 70 |
| Post-war properties | 335 |
| 405 | |
| (b) Transfers arranged to deal with overcrowing, underoccupation etc., on Council estates | 331". |
SANITARY INSPECTION
The following summary of the inspection work, together with a report on the various duties
performed by the Public Health Inspectors, has been submitted to me by Mr. A.H. Smith, Chief
Public Health Inspector.
During the year under review inspections were carried out as set out below : —
Inspections made 7,001
Re-inspections after order or notice 11,929
Complaints received and investigated 1,232
Bakehouses 51
Butchers Shops 225
Caravans 147
Clean Air Act Inspections 322
Dairies 13
Drain tests 210
Factories 186
Hawkersand food delivery vans)
Hawkers storage premises and stalls)
Ice Cream Samples 17
Ice Cream premises 17
Infectious Disease 548
Licensed premises 89
Milk samples 32
Other food shops 714
Overcrowding 3
Outworkers 34
Piggeries 4
Public entertainment in connection with licensing 95
Restaurants, cafes, etc. 250
Smoke observations 209
Stables 31
Swimming baths 29
Pet Animals Act 1951 16
Hairdressers and Barbers premises 29
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