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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 1949
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Shoreditch]
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19.
VI. - SANITARY CIRCUMSTANCES
The following tables summarize the visits of inspection and the work
of the Sanitary Inspectors during 1949.
| INSPECTIONS. | |
| Housing Act, 1936, Section 5 | 2,834 |
| Housing Act, 1936, Section 9 | 2 |
| Housing Act, 1936, Section 12 | 19 |
| Other dwellings | 5,302 |
| Premises not specified below | 580 |
| Houses let in lodgings | 3 |
| Factories - mechanical | 677 |
| Factories - non-mechanical | 79 |
| Outworkers | 286 |
| Hairdressers | 64 |
| Bakehouses | 73 |
| Milkshops | 290 |
| Cookshops | 433 |
| Fried Fish Shops | 78 |
| Ice Cream shops | 304 |
| Butchers' shops, stalls, stores, etc. | 195 |
| Rag & Bone dealers | 10 |
| Registered Food shops or premises | 651 |
| Fish curers' premises | 25 |
| Fur Skin dresser's premises | 3 |
| Stables | 91 |
| Common Lodging House | 2 |
| Shops Act, 1934 | 2,043 |
| Smoke observations | 398 |
| Pharmacy & Poisons Act, 1933 | 102 |
| Markets | 52 |
| Canteens | 136 |
| Vacant sites. | 140 |
| Dangerous buildings | 110 |
| Infectious Disease Visits | 1,229 |
| SUMMARY OF WORK DONE. | |
| Premises, cleansed throughout | 51 |
| Premises, partially cleansed throughout | 1,386 |
| Premises, total rooms | 2,318 |
| Verminous rooms | 29 |
| Verminous premises | 18 |
| Premises, generally repaired | 4,112 |
| Light and ventilation | 31 |
| Roofs, gutters, rainwater pipes | 1,911 |
| Overcrowding | 22 |
| Water reinstated | 89 |
| Drains, new | 1 |
| Drains, reconstructed. | 3 |