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 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.
Total Number for year. | Notes, Results of Inspection, &c. | |
---|---|---|
1 Complaints received | 39 | |
2 Nuisances detected without complaint | 310 | |
3 Nuisances abated | 331 | |
4 Notices served | 316 | |
5 Summonses taken out | 9 | |
6 Convictions | 3 | |
7 Cottages inspected | 398 | |
8 Lodging-houses inspected | 2 | |
9 Slaughter-houses inspected | 8 | |
10 Bakehouses inspected | 15 | |
11 Dairies and Milk Shops inspected | 26 | |
12 Cowsheds inspected | 16 | |
13 Workshops inspected | 9 | |
14 Filthy houses cleansed, sec. 46 Public Health Act, 1875 | 5 | |
5 | ||
15 Houses disinfected | 131 | |
16 Overcrowding abated | 4 | |
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 afforded | 3 | |
23 Wells cleansed or repaired | 1 |