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Bromley 1948

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Bromley]

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TABLE VII.

Summary of the Work of the Sanitary Inspectors for the Year 1948

TYPE OF INSPECTION.On ComplaintRoutineRe InspectionTotal VisitsNuisances Found
Housing—
1. Inspection of District Regulations
2. For Nuisances2,4575298,13311,11912,843
3. Overcrowding2804137358
4. Verminous Conditions29316019
5. Dirty Conditions1313174312
6. Water Supply21325318
7. Cesspools1231
8. Earth Closets
9. Privy Pails1233
10. Houses Let in Lodgings6321118
11. Disinfestation15313312
12. Noxious Accumulations2411175
13. Other Accumulations307326925
Totals2,8556028,31011,76712,946
Infectious Diseases—
1. Inquiry Visits (Nuisances found recorded in above table)18716203
2. Disinfection Purposes2432359—_
3. Smallpox Inquiries27128
4. Public Health (Aircraft Regulations)
Totals2424620290
Meat, Milk and Other Food Shops—
1. Butchers277557685878
2. Confectionery50368620
3. Dairies and Cowsheds41672519622 26
4. Fish838533426
5. Fried Fish1645707
6. Food Hawkers88
7. Greengrocers, Fruiterers606667
8. Grocery42543122707163
9. Ice Cream192312233
10. Meat Regulations (Special Visits)544—_49
11. Milk Examined on Highway2020
12. Retail Market74743
13. Slaughterhouses3535
14. Horseflesh Shops5353
Totals872,4503342,871329
Factories, Outworkers, etc.
1. Factories in which Sects. 1, 2, 3, 4 and 6 of the Factories Act 1937 are to be enforced by the Local Authority128538229
2. Factories not included in 1 in which Sect. 3 is enforced by the Local Authority275255134114
3. Other Premises in which Sect. 7 is enforced by the Local Authority (excluding outworkers' premises)
4. Bakehouses (a) Mech. power260339541
(b) Non-mech. power661
5. Outworkers' premises33538
6. School Canteens1056127819
7. Smoke Abatement1101324
8. Restaurants, Hotels, Etc48534123105
Total45330205580309