London's Pulse: Medical Officer of Health reports 1848-1972
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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 1930
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Wimbledon]
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| Reason of Visit. | No. |
|---|---|
| Infectious Diseases | |
| House Inspections | |
| House to House Inspections | |
| Rent Act Inspections | |
| Houses Let in Lodgings; Inspections | |
| Inspection of Factories, Workshops, Workplaces and Out-workers' Premises | |
| Common Lodging Houses; Inspections | |
| Dairies and Cowsheds; Inspections | |
| Inspections under Shop Acts | |
| Application of Tests to Drains | |
| Inspections under Diseases of Animals Acts | |
| Obtaining Samples of Foods and Drugs | |
| Miscellaneous (including Inspections of food, slaughter-houses, mews, stables, caravans, Petroleum Acts, water supply, piggeries, mosquitoes, etc.) | |
| 10,793 |
923 preliminary or informal notices were served in respect
of 831 houses.
98 statutory notices were served in respect of 90 houses.
The necessary work was executed in all but 124 cases,
which were not completed by the end of the year. In 51 of
these, the work was actually in hand at the close of the year.
Table XII. gives a summary of the nuisances abated, and
improvements carried out under the supervision of the Sanitary
Staff of the Public Health Department.
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