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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 1951
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Shoreditch]
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44.
STATISTICAL REPORT OF HOUSING WORK
DONS BY THE SANITARY INSPECTORS, 1951.
Overcrowding
Number of new cases reported 97
Number of cases referred to L.C.C. 97
Number of cases relieved 92
Number of inspections and visits by Sanitary
Inspectors 229
Preferential treatment on health grounds
Number of cases investigated and reported on to
L.C.C. 182
Number of cases known to have been found
accommodation 12
Number of inspections and visits by Sanitary
Inspectors 199
Underground rooms
Number reported on 27
Number closed 9
Number where undertakings received 6
Number made to comply with regulations
General
Number of letters sent to County M.O.H. and
Valuer, L.C.C. 438
Number of letters sent to Shoreditch Borough
Council Housing Department 201