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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In addition to the analyses carried out by the Waterworks Company,
samples have also been taken from consumers' taps by the Public
Health Inspectors, and sent lor Bacteriological analyses once per month,
and Chemical analyses once per six months, and the results have confirmed
the findings of the Company.
(ii) Sanitary Inspection of the Area
The Chief Public Health Inspector has given me the undermentioned
report, as required by Article 27 (18) of the Sanitary Officers'
(Outside London) Regulations, 1935, and also the particulars which
follow:—
During the year, 1,713 complaints were received, and investigated,
and 6,097 visits were made for this purpose.
TABLE 10 Nature and Number of Inspections During the Year
Accumulations and Refuse Deposits | 234 |
Atmospheric Pollution (Clean Air Act) | 94 |
Bakehouses | 42 |
Butchers' Shops and Stalls, etc. | 301 |
Cesspools | 86 |
Common Lodging Houses | 8 |
Dairies and Milkshops | 185 |
Drains, relaid and altered | 386 |
Drainage—obstructed or defective | 607 |
Drains Tested and inspected | 882 |
Disinfections and Disinfestations | 12 |
Diseases of Animals Act | 60 |
Dustbins | 38 |
Establishments for Massage and Special Treatment | 10 |
Factories Act (Mechanical Power) | 128 |
Factories Act (Non-mechanical) | 24 |
Factories Act (Outworkers Premises) | 397 |
Food Preparing Premises | 322 |
Food Hawkers | 87 |
Food Hygiene Observations | 623 |
Food Inspections | 513 |
Food Sampling—Formal | 1 |
Food Sampling—Informal | 349 |
Food Shops | 580 |
Food Vehicles | 65 |
Housing Acts—General | 315 |
Housing—Rent Act, 1957 | 589 |
Heating Appliances (Fireguards) Act, 1952 | 245 |
Ice Cream Vendors | 151 |
Infectious Disease | 874 |
Insects and pests | 54 |
Keeping of Animals | 146 |
Milk Sampling | 126 |
Miscellaneous | 1,273 |
Markets | 182 |
Nuisances, Public Health Act | 2,510 |