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 Woolwich]
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Restaurants and Eating Houses.
Number of Inspections 85
„ Defects and dirty conditions found and
remedied 22
Factories and Workshops.
Number of Inspections of Factories and Workshops 313
,, Notices served 12
„ New workrooms measured 25
Homeworkers' Premises.
Number of Inspections 490
,, Oases referred to District Inspectors 14
Miscellaneous.
Total number of houses visited re. Phthisis, Measles,
Scabies, Whooping-Cough, and Zymotic Enteritis 53
Visits paid for various causes, complaints, etc. 360
„ „ Verminous and dirty houses and bedding 1060
Re-visits—estimated 1000
Cases where bedding was found to be in a dirty and
verminous condition, and cleansed 385
Total number of cases referred to District Inspectors 160
„ Early morning inspections. 5
„ Overcrowding—cases found and abated 45
Notices served on tenants re dirty conditions 150
Notices served on landlords and tenants—various 195
There are some details of work which cannot be represented
in figures, but which take up a tremendous amount
of time—mostly in connection with troublesome complaints,
where the ordinary mode of procedure, that of serving the
stereotyped notice, followed up by prosecution would not