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 for 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 Regulation 25(20) of the Public Health
Officers Regulations, 1959, and also the particulars which follow:-
During the year 1,671 complaints were received and investigated,
and 5,869 visits were made for this purpose.
TABLE 10
Nature and Number of Inspections During the Year
Accumulations and Refuse Deposits | 152 |
Agriculture (Safety, Health and Welfare) | 18 |
Bakehouses | 24 |
Butchers' Shops and Stalls, etc. | 235 |
Cesspools | 65 |
Clean Air Act General | 48 |
Clean Air Act Smoke Observations | 69 |
Clean Air Act Smoke Control Areas | 26 |
Clean Air Act Atmospheric Pollution | 61 |
Common Lodging Houses | 11 |
Dairies and Milkshops | 80 |
Drains, relaid and altered | 432 |
Drainage—obstructed or defective | 548 |
Drains Tested and inspected | 395 |
Disinfections and Disinfestations | 13 |
Diseases of Animals Act | 8 |
Dustbins | 53 |
Establishments for Massage and Special treatment | 13 |
Factories Act (Mechanical Power) | 63 |
Factories Act (Non-mechanical) | 13 |
Factories Act (Outworkers Premises) | 81 |
Food Preparing Premises | 268 |
Food Hawkers | 26 |
Food Hygiene Observations | 507 |
Food Inspections | 469 |
Food Sampling—Formal | 4 |
Food Sampling—Informal | 313 |
Food Shops | 364 |
Food Vehicles | 57 |
Housing Acts—General | 286 |
Housing—Rent Act 1957 | 314 |
Heating Appliances (Fireguards) Act 1952 | 88 |
Ice Cream Vendors | 100 |
Ice Cream Samples | 95 |
Infectious Disease including Food Poisoning | 1,522 |
Insects and Pests | 97 |
Keeping of Animals | 89 |