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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 RDC]
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45
ESSEX COUNTY COUNCIL
Parishes of Hornchurch, Upminster, Havering,
Cranham, Great Warley, Noak Hill.
No. 1 District.
Summary of Work done through the Sanitary Inspector
in the Rural Sanitary District of Romford during the year
ending December 31st, 1908.
(To be sent to the Clerk to the County Council with ths Medical Officer of Health's Annual Report.
| Total Number for year. | Notes, Results of Inspection, &c. | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Complaints received | ||
| 2 | Nuisances detected without complaint | ||
| 3 | Nuisances abated | ||
| 4 | Notices served | 54 | |
| 5 | Summonses taken out | Nil. | |
| 6 | Convictions | Nil. | |
| 7 | Cottages inspected | All in district | |
| 8 | Lodging-houses inspected | None in district | |
| 9 | Slaughter-houses inspected | 9 | |
| 10 | Bakehouses inspected | 12 | |
| 11 | Dairies and Milk Shops inspected | 6 | |
| 12 | Cowsheds inspected | 34 | |
| 13 | Workshops inspected | 17 | |
| 14 | Filthy houses cleansed, sec. 46 Public Health Act, 1875 | 4 | - |
| 15 | Houses disinfected | As required by M.O.H. | |
| 16 | Overcrowding abated | 2 | |
| 17 | Houses placed in habitable repair | 4 | |
| 18 | Houses closed, Upminster and Havering | 12 | |
| 19 | Houses erected or re-built for which Water "Certificates" were applied | Surveyor's duty | |