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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 1909

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Romford]

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ESSEX COUNTY COUNCIL.
Summary of Work done through the Sanitary Inspector
in the Urban Sanitary District of Romford during the year
ending December 31st, 1909.

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.Notes, Results of Inspection, &c.
1 Complaints received39
2 Nuisances detected without complaint310
3 Nuisances abated331
4 Notices served316
5 Summonses taken out9
6 Convictions3
7 Cottages inspected398
8 Lodging-houses inspected2
9 Slaughter-houses inspected8
10 Bakehouses inspected15
11 Dairies and Milk Shops inspected26
12 Cowsheds inspected16
13 Workshops inspected9
14 Filthy houses cleansed, sec. 46 Public Health Act, 18755
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15 Houses disinfected131
16 Overcrowding abated4
17 Houses placed in habitable repair
18 Houses closed
19 Houses erected or re-built for which Water" Certificates" were applied
20 "Certificates" granted .
21 „ deferred.
22 Wells sunk or improved supplies of Water afforded3
23 Wells cleansed or repaired1