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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 1946
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for East Ham]
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SANITARY CIRCUMSTANCES.
Sanitary Inspection.
Details of the work of the Inspectors in general sanitary administration
are contained in the following statements.
(a) Inspections.
The number of inspections of all classes 24,064
(i) Housing.
House-to-house —
Under Public Health Act 9,682
Re-inspections 6,738
Housing Act, 1936 3,487
(ii) Sanitary Circumstances.
Yards and Passages 21
Drainage and Sanitary Accommodation 1,055
Factories (excluding Bakehouses) 12
Workplaces and Outworkers 52
Caravans 17
Re Offensive Fumes 4
Miscellaneous 720
(iii) Food Supply.
Slaughterhouse 6
Dairies 6
Food Premises 806
Bakehouses 102
Re Sampling 587
(iv) Infectious Disease.
Visits 769
(b) Notices.—The number of notices served during the year
totalled 4,711 of which 142 were statutory notices. The
number of notices complied with in the same period was
1,357.