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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

Woolwich 1898

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Woolwich]

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Table: The following figures show the number of inspections (re-inspections not included) made during 1898, compared with the number made during the year previous to the appointment of a Clerk (1895) and also during the years 1896, (in the middle of which the appointment was made) 1897, and 1898.

The following figures show the number of inspections (re-inspections not included) made during 1898, compared with the number made during the year previous to the appointment of a Clerk (1895) and also during the years 1896, (in the middle of which the appointment was made) 1897, and 1898.

Inspector Mackie.Inspector Woolley.
18951896189718981895189618971898
r6SS237428902857190 12108235112437*

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Clerical
Work.
The Clerical Work in connection with the department
during 1898 was fully as heavy as during the preceding year,
but owing to the resignation of the clerk I have been unable to prepare
a detailed statement such as appeared in my last Report.
Common
Lodging I louses.
There are 37 common lodging houses in the
district. The control of these houses is under the
London County Council. They continue to be well conducted, and the
proprietors are willing to co-operate in every way with the Sanitary
Officials
Slaughter
Houses.
There.are now 6 licensed slaughter-houses in the district,
a reduction of 1 since last year. The regulations of the
London County Council applying to them are generally observed. 1
would repeat the hope I expressed in my last Report that, in the interests
both of the trade and the public, they will at no distant time all be done
away with and replaced by a public Abattoir under the control of the
Local Authority.
Bakehouses.
These have, during the year been systematically
visited to secure compliance with the regulations. The number has
been reduced by 1, there being now 40 in the district. The structural
defects in many of them are serious, but legal difficulties present a great
obstacle in the way of attempting to abolish them.
*Also I00 additional samples taken under the Food and Drugs Act.