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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Action Taken (under Housing Acts and Health Acts):
Notice to Inspect (Section 127, Housing Act, 1925) 2,646
Cautionary or Intimation Notices Issued 2,409
Number complied with 2,169
Statutory Orders issued 123
Number complied with 104*
Summonses served 2
Number of convictions obtained 0
Summonses withdrawn 2
„ dismissed 0
House Let in Lodgings (Tenement Houses):
Number registered under Bye-laws 0
Number of contraventions 0
Common Lodging Houses:
Number registered under Bye-laws 1
Number of Inspections made 28
Number of contraventions 1
Number remedied 1
Canal Boats used as Dwellings:
Number of contraventions of Regulations 0
Number remedied 0
Movable Dwellings, Caravans, Tents, &c.:
Number observed during the year 10
Number of nuisances therefrom abated 0
Number removed from district 1
Bakehouses:
Number in district 59
Number of Inspections 185
. Contraventions of Factory Acts 13
Contraventions remedied 17†
Slaughter-houses:
Number on register 5
Inspections of carcases, etc. 224
Contraventions of Bye-laws 0
Contraventions remedied 0
Cowsheds:
Number on register 0
Number of milch cows in district 0
Dairies and Milkshops:
Number of premises on register 236
Number of itinerant milk sellers registered 47
Number of inspections made 401
Contraventions of Milk and Dairies Order, 1926 2
Contraventions remedied 2
Unsound Food:
Meat (including organs) seized and surrendered 308 lbs.
Fish (wet and dried) surrendered 247 lbs.
Poultry surrendered 8 lbs.
Bacon surrendered 887 lbs.
Tinned and Cooked Meat surrendered 244 lbs.
Fruit surrendered 3 boxes of oranges
Total 1,694 lbs.
plus 3 boxes of oranges
Method of disposal Destroyed.
* Includes a certain number issued in 1934. † Includes 4 from 1934.