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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 1937

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Bromley]

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Table: TABLE VII.Summary of Work of Sanitary Inspectors for the Year1937.

TABLE VII.

Summary of Work of Sanitary Inspectors for the Year

1937.

TYPE OF INSPECTIONS.No. of Inspections.
Nuisances and Defects found.On Complaint.Routine Inspections.Re- Inspections.Total. Inspections.
Houses Visited—
Under Insp. of District Reg1135—11513801495
Housing Act, 1936. Sec. 911—8687
Sec. 111126063
Sec. 623—3—3
Sec. 42—2—2
For nuisances23086956420812840
(No. not confirmed, 83) Overcrowding1612229
Verminous houses1416349bo
Dirty conditions2321722
Water supply12—35
Cesspools882677111
Earth closets—————
Privy pails———1919
Privy bins—————
Infectious disease——16911180
Disinfection purposes—11246131
Disinfestation purposes1221427
Special visits re overcrowding31—83285
Totals350873561538175167
Food Preparing Places-—
Bakehouses—Factories251501566
Workshops5—22830
Butchers' shops2141298171319
Confectionery shops1230436
Dairies, Cowsheds, etc4—741690
Fish shops10—259—259
Fried Fish shops3116421
Food hawkers——96—96
Greengrocery, Fruiterers921378147
Grocery shops1413223326
Hotels, Restaurants, etc19—55964
Ice Cream premises——17—17
Milk Sampling—Bact. Ord——35—35
,, graded——40—40
Tuberc.——5—5
Milk examined on highway——21—21
Retail market——50—50
Slaughterhouses1—636—636
Totals112113163843258