Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Shoreditch]
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VIII. - SANITARY CIRCUMSTANCES.
The following tables summarize the visits of inspection and the work of the Sanitary Inspectors during 1948.
INSPECTIONS. | |
Housing Act 1936 Section 5 | 1,364 |
Housing Act, 1936, Section 9 | 14 |
Housing Act, 1936, Section 12 | 39 |
Other dwd11ings | 4,855 |
Premises not specified below | 235 |
Houses let in lodgings | - |
Factories - mechanical | 603 |
non-mechanical | 65 |
Outworkers | 309 |
Bakehouses | 125 |
Milkshops | 298 |
Cookshops | 746 |
Fried Fish shops | 66 |
Ice Cream shops | 328 |
Butchers' shops, stalls, stores, etc. | 178 |
Rag and Bone dealers | 23 |
Registered Food shops or premises | 327 |
Fish Curers' premises | 24 |
Fur Skin dresser's premises | 1 |
Stables | 8 |
Common Lodging House | 5 |
Shops Act, 1934 | 1,926 |
Smoke obs ervations | 226 |
Pharmacy & Poisons Act, 1933 | 185 |
Markets | 59 |
Static water tanks | 3 |
Canteens | 78 |
Visits by Infectious Disease Visitors | 4,204 |
SUMMARY OF WORK DONE. | |
Premises, cleansed throughout | 81 |
Premises, partially cleansed throughout | 1,588 |
Premises, total rooms | 3,845 |
Verminous rooms | 22 |
Verminous premises | 14 |
Premises, generally repaired | 3,500 |
Light and ventilation | 47 |
Roofs, gutters, rainwater pipes | 1,911 |
Overcrowding | 77 |
Water reinstated | 100 |
Drains, new | 3 |
Drains, reconstructed | 3 |
Drains, improved or repaired. | 151 |
Drains, obstructions removed. | 126 |