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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

Greenwich 1917

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Greenwich]

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Table: Food Preparation . Places where food is prepared have been visited on 138 occasions, improvements being required in 28 instances, as detailed below: —

Food Preparation . Places where food is prepared have been visited on 138 occasions, improvements being required in 28 instances, as detailed below: —

Class of Premises.Number on Lists.Number of I nspectionsNumber of instances where matters needed attention.
At end of 1916.Added 1915.Re-moved 1915.At end of 1917.
Hotel Kitchens4......44l
Eating Houses473...505014
Fried Fish Shops24...222247
Pork Butchers115...17174
Mineral Water Manufacturers1......11...
Ice do.2......22...
Sausage do.141...1518...
Others6......662
Totals1099211712228

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The 28 instances where matters needed attention included 22
cases where the premises generally, or kitchen and scullery particularly,
needed cleansing and limewashing, 3 where the sanitary
arrangement was defective, 3 for want of ashpit.
Customs and Inland Revenue Acts. One application was
received during the year for a certificate under these Acts, and a
certificate was granted.
Houses Let in Lodgings.
There was no change in the Register of Houses during 1917,
so that the number of premises on the Register of Houses Let in
Lodgings is still 247 as at the end of last year.
Two hundred and two visits of inspection were paid to
these houses during the year, which brought to light the necessity
of cleansing, etc., as set out below, as required by the By-laws, in
96 cases, whilst under the Public Health (London) Act, 1891,
cleansing, etc., was required in 93 cases, as set out below: —