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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 1932
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Wimbledon]
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SANITARY CIRCUMSTANCES OF THE
AREA
| Reason of Visit. | No. |
|---|---|
| Infectious Diseases | 831 |
| House Inspections | 2,979 |
| House to House Inspections | 1,290 |
| Rent Act Inspections | 51 |
| Houses Let in Lodgings; Inspections | 531 |
| Inspection of Factories, Workshops, Work-places and Out-workers' Premises | 354 |
| Common Lodging Houses; Inspections | 9 |
| Dairies and Cowsheds; Inspections | 64 |
| Inspections under Shop Acts | 684 |
| Application of Tests to Drains | 176 |
| Inspections under Diseases of Animals Acts | 21 |
| Obtaining Samples of Foods and Drugs | 5 |
| Miscellaneous (including Inspections of food, slaughter-houses, mews, stables, caravans, Petroleum Acts, water supply, piggeries, mosquitoes, etc.) | 1,696 |
| 8,691 |
Seven hundred and sixty-nine preliminary or informal
notices were served in respect of six hundred and ninety-nine
houses.
One hundred and two statutory notices were served in
respect of one hundred and fifty-seven houses.
The necessary work was executed in all but one hundred
and two cases, which were not completed by the end of the
year. In sixty-eight of these, the work was actually in hand
at the close of the year.
Table III. gives a summary of the nuisances abated, and
improvements carried out under the supervision of the
staff of the Public Health Department.
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