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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

Shoreditch 1938

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Shoreditch]

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Table: Table No. 115

Table No. 115

Inspections, 1938DISTRICTSTotal
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Housing Act, 1936, section 54637056508883119*5743*1029
Other premises588561655107856558173010576255440
Re-inspections, etc.32162878272734272715246621382504147823549
Visits in connection with infectious diseases—(a) By sanitary inspectors1726253538329629217
(b) By infectious disease visitor...........................2763
Common lodging houses7...............1410334
Houses let-in-lodgings...1317...100......2...132
†Workshops43271041194072863278
†Factories4164254388521618275
Factories—mechanical1297431242421463750436
,, non-mechanical.........19210......22
Outworkers46383214139414653...436
Bakehouses4108961475366
Milkshops and cowshed986010811612178976855801
Cookshops129443536251330241337
Fried fish shops11311574175467
Ice cream shops38154244291034134229
Shops Acts...32...3...42...151
Meat and food272033345911411812255
Stables...1197...42...24
Rag and bone dealers216...32.........225
Markets16292326242925107189

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* 49 of the inspections carried out by the Inspector for District No. 7 do not relate to any one
district. These inspections were discontinued in October when similar work was carried out
by all District Inspectors.
† Inspections under Factory and Workshop Act, 1901.