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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 RDC]

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COUNTY OF ESSEX.
Parishes of Dagenham, Rainham, and Wennington.

Table: Summary of Work done through the Sanitary Inspector in the Rural Sanitary District of Romford during the year ending December 31st, 1909.(To be sent to the Clerk to the County Council with the Medical Officer of Health's Annual Report.

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

(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.
1Complaints received35
2Nuisances detected without complaint217
3Nuisances abated252
4Notices served to connect houses to sewers139 & 120
5Summonses taken out1
6Convictions1
7Cottages inspected579
8Lodging-houses inspected
9Slaughter-houses inspected5
10Bakehouses inspected6
11Dairies and Milk Shops inspected14
12Cowsheds inspected12
13Workshops inspected14
14Filthy houses cleansed, sec. 46 Public Health Act, 18755
15Houses disinfected71
16Overcrowding abated
17Houses placed in habitable repair18
18Houses closed2
19Houses erected or re-built for which Water "Certificates" were applied
20"Certificates" granted
21,, deferred
22Wells sunk or improved supplies of Water afforded3
23Wells cleansed or repaired