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Shoreditch 1929

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Shoreditch]

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SANITARY WORK.
A re arrangement of the Districts and duties of the Sanitary Inspectors was
effected daring the year. When Mr. E. T. D. Jordan, the Rat Officer, retired on
31st March, having reached the age of 65 years, it was decided not to appoint a
successor but to appoint an additional Sanitary Inspector and to make each Inspector
responsible within his district for work under the Rats and Mice Destruction Act.
Mr. Gibbs was the Sanitary Inspector appointed to the new post.
A further re arrangement of duties was approved by the Council at their meeting
in April, when it was arranged as a temporary experimental measure to allocate to
two of the Inspectors duties relating to the Sale of Food and Drugs and other similar
special work, and to divide the Borough into ten districts to be assigned to the District
Inspectors.
Mr. D. Grant and Mr. F. C. Shaw were the Inspectors appointed to undertake
special duties in connection with the following :—
Food and Drugs Acts; Rag Flock Acts; Merchandise Marks Acts
Regulations; Sale of Food Order, 1921 ; Regulations as to Sale of
Eggs; Meat Regulations (Stalls) ; Smoke Observation; and such
other duties as may be applicable thereto.

Public Health (London) Act, 1891. Summary of Proceedings during 1929.

PREMISES.NUMBER OF PLACES—Number of inspections, 1929.Number of notices, 1929.Number of prosecutions, 1929.
On register at end of 1928.Added in 1929.Removed in 1929.On register at end of 1929.
Milk premises2887728889511...
Cowsheds2......2172...
Slaughterhouses1......1201...
Offensive trade premises24......1122
Ice Cream premises1389121914...
Houses let in lodgings296......389879296...
Restaurants and eating houses1904...19432226...

dumber of intimation notices served for all purposes 5,347
Underground Rooms—
Number illegally occupied
Number closed or illegal occupation discontinued