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 Willesden]
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Description of Work. | Sanitary Districts. | |||||||
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Lady Hlth. Vis. | No. 2 | No. 3 | No.4 | No.5 | No. 6 | Total | ||
Inspection of Houses— | ||||||||
Number inspected and measured for Inland Revenue Certificate | 2 | 1 | 3 | |||||
Number inspected on complaint | 5 | 20 | 22 | 20 | 40 | 67 | 174 | |
,, „ for special inquiry | 2 | 37 | 8 | 22 | 69 | |||
,, from house to house | 8 | 50 | 30 | 68 | 12 | 168 | ||
,, „ (Housing of the Working Classes Act, 1890) | ||||||||
Re-inspection of Houses- | ||||||||
Number re-inspected | 8 | 4 | 25 | 68 | 5 | 110 | ||
Number of visits to premises where works of amendment are in operation | 397 | 384 | 350 | 530 | 678 | 2339 | ||
Number of Birth Enquiries | 264 | 264 | ||||||
Infantile Death Enquiries | 64 | 64 | ||||||
Cases of Infectious disease visited | 152 | 152 | ||||||
„ „ re-visited | 87 | 87 | ||||||
,, removed | 106 | |||||||
Number of visits re miscellaneous matters | 29 | 29 | ||||||
rooms disinfected | 190 | 190 | ||||||
Cases'of illness notified from schools, visited | 1633 | 1633 | ||||||
,, re-visited | 1089 | 1089 | ||||||
Number of visits to Schools | 170 | 170 | ||||||
Number of rooms disinfected after | Consumption | 4 | 4 | |||||
Cancer | 9 | 9 | ||||||
Other Diseases | 29 | 29 | ||||||
Number of Midwives disinfected | 3 | 3 | ||||||
cases of Consumption visited | 63 | 63 | ||||||
Inspection of Mews, Stables, etc. | 7 | 5 | 6 | 11 | 15 | 44 | ||
of Dairies, Milkshops, etc | 8 | 22 | 22 | 27 | 13 | 92 | ||
of Slaughterhouses | 7 | 12 | 6 | 2 | 27 | |||
re Miscellaneous matters | 3 | 34 | 8 | 16 | 61 | |||
„ of Canal Boats | 15 | 15 | ||||||
Observations re Smoke Nuisance | 5 | 5 | 10 | |||||
Nuisances abated— | ||||||||
Number of new drains constructed | 2 | 2 | 2 | 5 | 11 | |||
drains amended | 8 | 6 | 3 | 1 | 11 | 29 | ||
tested | 12 | 6 | 18 | 11 | 23 | 70 | ||
drains inspected | 27 | 20 | 30 | 3 | 8 | 88 | ||
nuisances of various descriptions abated | 47 | 81 | 68 | 76 | 71 | 343 | ||
Sanitary notices issued | 43 | 78 | 42 | 62 | 48 | 273 | ||
Statutary | 20 | 66 | tl | 40 | 16 | 153 | ||
„ „ „ under the Housing of the Working Classes Act, 1890 | ||||||||
Number of letters received | 1093 | |||||||
written .. . | 824 | |||||||
Number of Summonses issued |