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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

Bromley 1936

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Bromley]

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Table: TABLE VII.Summary of Work of the Sanitary Inspectors for the Year1936.

TABLE VII.

Summary of Work of the Sanitary Inspectors for the Year

1936.

Type of Inspections.Nuisances and Defects found.No. of Inspections.
On Complaint.Routine Inspections.Re- Inspections.Total Inspections.
Houses Visited—-
Under Insp. of District Reg10471112536443780
Housing Act, 1930. Sec. 17———101101
Sec. 19——57782
For Nuisances (No. not confirmed, 70)16565618619152562
Overcrowding——-22
Verminous houses342534775
Dirty conditions3231419
Water supply——123
Cesspools6629098
Earth closets———11
Privy pans——13132
Infectious disease——15622178
Disinfection purposes1179787
Disinfestation purposes1181019
Housing Act—measuring——304211515
Totals274860777361747554
Food Preparing Places—
Bakehouses—Factories9—32739
Workshops1—28634
Butchers' shops1528637872
Confectionery shops--8412
Dairies, Cowsheds, etc.9—1039112
Fish shops——2621263
Fried fish shops——6—6
Food hawkers——1511152
Greengrocery, Fruiterers6—79382
Grocery shops111864191
Hotels, restaurants7117—18
Ice cream premises——2—2
Meat Regs. (spec. visits)——5—5
Milk sampling—Bact. Ord.—341—44
,, graded—371—74
Tuberc.——13—13
Milk examined on the highway——56—56
Retail market——40—40
Slaughterhouses5—6115616
Totals53102574472631