London's Pulse: Medical Officer of Health reports 1848-1972
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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
Stepney 1916
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Stepney]
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Slaughterhouses—
Number of Inspections 11
Number of Notices
Offensive Trades—
Number of Inspections 26
Number of Notices 2
Smoke Nuisances—
Number of observations 58
Number of nuisances and complaints 4
Number of Notices 16
Number of summonses —
Housing and Town Planning Act—-
Houses dealt with under Section 15 of Housing and Town Planning Act 57
Number of Closing Orders 57
Remedied after Closing Orders 16
Houses demolished 41
Underground Rooms—
Number illegally occupied 30
Number closed or illegal occupation discontinued 30
Overcrowding—
Number of rooms overcrowded 237
Number remedied 237
Prosecutions —
Cleansing—
Number of adults cleansed 267
Number of children cleansed —
Number of rooms or premises cleansed 1,274
Water Supply to Tenement Houses—
Premises supplied 5
Prosecutions —
Inland Revenue Act (Applications for Certificates)—
Number of houses 1
Number of tenements included therein 16
Applications granted 0
Refused —
Deferred or withdrawn -
B 2