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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
Barnet 1957
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Barnet Urban District Council]
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INSPECTION OF DISTRICT.
General inspections of the district have been carried out periodically
and all complaints investigated.
The process of serving a preliminary or intimation notice upon the
person in default, specifying the works necessary to remedy the defects
found, is usually followed. It was found necessary to ask your authority
to serve ninety Statutory Notices, where persons failed to comply with
the preliminary notice, or the strict legal procedure was necessary in the
first instance.
SANITARY INSPECTION OF AREA.
The following is a list of the number and nature of visits and inspections:-
| Visits re: Housing Acts | 794 |
| Visits re: nuisance and sanitary defects | 1,059 |
| Visits re: infectious diseases | 351 |
| Visits re: Petroluem Acts | 232 |
| Visits re: factories | 212 |
| Visits re: outworkers' premises | 7 |
| Visits re: food manufactories, cafes etc. | 361 |
| Visits re: ice cream and sampling | |
| Visits re: overcrowding | 4 |
| Visits re: aged and infirm persons | 23 |
| Visits to inspect meat and other foods | |
| Visits re: schools | 52 |
| Visits re: pollution of watercourses | 30 |
| Visits re: Tents, Caravans and Sheds | 35 |
| Visits re: Shops Acts | 37 |
| Visits re: keeping of animals | 18 |
| Visits re: Rodent Infestation | 2,442 |
| Visits re: other infestations | 94 |
| Miscellaneous visits | 120 |
NUMBER OF NOTICES SERVED DURING YEAR.
| Number of Informal Notices | 151 |
| Number of Statutory Notices | 90 |
| Informal Notices complied with | 113 |
| Statutory Notices complied with | 99 |