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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

Romford 1908

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Romford]

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24
ESSEX COUNTY COUNCIL.
Summary of Work done through the Sanitary Inspector in the
Urban Sanitary District of Romford during the year ending
December 31st, 1908.

Table: (To be sent to the Clerk to the County Council with the Medical Officer of Health's Annual Report.)

(To be sent to the Clerk to the County Council with the Medical Officer of Health's Annual Report.)

Total Number for year.
1 Complaints received34
2 Nuisances detected without complaint344
3 Nuisances abated372
4 Notices served329
5 Summonses taken out8
6 Convictions6
7 Cottages inspected430
8 Lodging-houses inspected2
9 Slaughter-houses inspected9
10 Bakehouses inspected16
11 Dairies and Milk Shops inspected16
12 Cowsheds inspected17
13 Workshops inspected93
14 Filthy houses cleansed, sec. 46 Public Health Act, 18751
15 Houses disinfected96
16 Overcrowding abated—
17 Houses placed in habitable repair5
18 Houses closedNil.
19 Houses erected or re-built for which Water "Certificates" were applied—