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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
Southall-Norwood 1933
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Southall-Norwood]
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SANITARY INSPECTION OF DISTRICT.
The total number of inspections made to premises in
connection with the work of your Health Department (including
re-visits and visits to food shops) was 8,594. Houseto-house
inspections, supervision and testing of drainage
and sanitary fittings, taking of samples of milk, and other
foods, inspection of canal boats, lodging-houses, dairies,
cowsheds, milkshops, storage of petroleum, workshops,
slaughterhouses, bake-houses and all premises where food
is deposited, prepared or exposed for sale, have each received
attention.
The following table shows the number and nature such inspections :—-
| No. of Notices served : | |
| Preliminary | 456 |
| Statutory | 60 |
| Total | 516 |
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| Visits to premises on Complaints | 482 |
| Houses Inspected—House-to-house | 671 |
| No. of Inspections and Re-inspections of Houses and Premises, etc. | 4,408 |
| Miscellaneous | 368 |
| Slaughterhouses | 145 |
| Factories, Workshops, Workplaces and Outworkers | 542 |
| Visits to Canal for Boat Inspections | 148 |
| Infectious Disease | 141 |
| Petroleum and Carbide Stores | 70 |
| Food Sampling | 135 |
| Food Shops, Dairies, Bake-houses, Fried Fish Shops, &c. &c. | 1059 |
| Smoke Observations | 34 |
| Ditches | 81 |
| Shops' Acts | 38 |
| Piggeries | 71 |
| Tents, Vans & Sheds, &c | 43 |
| Deposits & Accumulations of Refuse | 149 |
| Schools | 9 |
| Total Number of Inspections | 8594 |