London's Pulse: Medical Officer of Health reports 1848-1972
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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
Willesden 1910
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Willesden]
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| Description of Work. | Sanitary Districts. | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 | ||||||||