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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 1946

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Bromley]

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Table: TABLE XIVWork of Sanitary Inspectors for the Year 1946.

TABLE XIV

Work of Sanitary Inspectors for the Year 1946.

HOUSING INSPECTION.On ComplaintRoutineRe InspectionTotalNuisances Found
1. Inspection of District Regulations—————
2. For Nuisances3,033633,0346,1303,839
3. Over—Crowding6——66
4. Verminous Conditions14—21356
5. Dirty Conditions7—172410
6. Water Supply—1—1—
7. Cesspools—————
8. Earth Closets—————
9. Privy Pails—————
10. Houses Let in Lodgings————
11. Disinfestation11441915
12. Noxious Accumulations11—6177
13. Housing Inquiries261276135505
Total3,3433443,0956,7823,888
Infectious Diseases—
1. Inquiry Visits (Nuisances found recorded above)—1383141—
2. Disinfection Purposes—76—76—
3. Smallpox Inquiries—Contacts—1,04041,044—
4. Aircraft Passengers—23—23—
Total—1,27771,284—
Meat, Milk and Other Food Shops—
1. Butchers64881350713
2. Confectionery—16—162
3. Dairy premises1305365
4. Fish2216—218—
5. Fried Fish—30—30—
6. Food Hawkers—15—15—
7. Greengrocery, Fruiterers1601621
8. Grocery30381841944
9. Ice Cream Shops, Vendors—351651l
10. Meat Regulations (Spec. Visits)—————
11. Milk Examined on Highway11—2—
12. Retail Market—92—92—
13. Slaughterhouses—33—33—
14. Horseflesh Shops—74—741
Total411,471431,55567
Factories, Outworkers. Etc.
1. Factories—Mechanical Power1531196539
—Non—Mechanical Power4149277
2. Other Premises and Workplaces—Hotels, Restaurants, Etc.9119613319
3. Bakehouses—Mechanical Power ...22023455
—Non—Mechanical Power—343379
4. Outworkers Premises—12—12—
5. Smoke Abatement8615297
Total382367534986