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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
East Ham 1944
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for East Ham]
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SANITARY CIRCUMSTANCES.
Sanitary Inspection.
Details of the activities of the inspectorate in general sanitary
administration are contained in the subjoined statements.
(a) Inspections.
The number of inspections of all classes 27,331
(i) Housing.
House-to-house —
Under Public Health Act 3,271
Re-inspections 2,811
Housing Act, 1936 175
(ii) Sanitary Circumstances.
Yards and Passages 2
Draining and Sanitary Accommodation 417
Factories (excluding Bakehouses) 16
Workplaces and Outworkers 9
Caravans 21
Re Offensive Fumes 14
Billets and Posts —
Miscellaneous 477
War Damage 18,384
(iii) Food Supply.
Slaughterhouses —
Dairies 30
Food Premises 774
Bakehouses 4
Re Sampling 504
Food Control 39
Food Decontamination 3
(iv) Infectious Disease.
Visits 380
(b) Notices.—The number of notices served during the year
totalled 1,338 of which 46 were statutory notices. The
number of notices complied with in the same period
was 639.