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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

Wimbledon 1923

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Wimbledon]

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One thousand and forty-eight preliminary or informal
notices were served in respect of 1,157 houses.
Ninety-seven statutory notices were served in respect of
136 houses.
The necessary work was executed in all but 85 cases,
which were not completed by the end of the year. In 78 of
these, the-work was actually in hand at the close of the year.
Table III. gives a summary of the nuisances abated, and
sanitary improvements carried out under the supervision of
the Inspectorial Staff.

Table: Factories and Workshops.In the Table below is shown the work done in the supervision of workshops and workplaces :—

Factories and Workshops.In the Table below is shown the work done in the supervision of workshops and workplaces :—

PREMISES.Inspection.Written Notices.Prosecutions.
Factories306-
Workshops4017—
Workplaces9--
Total7923—

Table: Defects Found.

Defects Found.

NATURE.Number of Defects.
Found.Remedied.Referred to H.M. Inspector.Prosecutions.
Want of Cleanliness1313——
Other Nuisances44-—
Sanitary Accommodation-
Insufficient11——
Uusuitable or Defective44——
Not Separate for Sexes22——
Breach of Special Sanitary Requirements to Bakehouses————
Other Offences22——
Totals2626——