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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 1940
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Southall]
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SANITARY CIRCUMSTANCES OF THE BOROUGH.
Water Supply.
Water is supplied to nearly the whole of the district by the South West Surburban
Water Company. The Metropolitan Water Board supplies a small area in the southern
part of the district, and the Rickmansworth and Uxbridge Valley Water Company a
small area in the northern part. The supply is satisfactory both in quality and in
quantity.
Sanitary Inspection of the District.
The total number of inspections of premises made in connection with the work
of the Health Department during the year was 3,652.
The following table shows an analysis of the number and nature of such inspections:—
Table No. 31.
| Visits to premises on complaints | 762 |
| House-to-house inspections | 4 |
| Re-inspections of houses, premises, etc. | 811 |
| Visits in connection with overcrowding | 18 |
| Drain tests | 228 |
| Factories | 9 |
| Visits to canal for canal boat inspections | 12 |
| Petroleum and carbide stores | 3 |
| Slaughterhouses | Nil |
| Food sampling | Nil |
| Dairies and milk shops | 17 |
| Bakehouses | 9 |
| Other premises where food is prepared (food shops) | 51 |
| Smoke observations | 97 |
| Tents, vans, sheds, etc. | I |
| Deposits and accumulations of refuse | 42 |
| Ditches | 24 |
| Cinemas, cafes, public houses, etc. | 1 |
| Miscellaneous | 503 |
| Rent books | Nil |
| Vermin | 168 |
| Unsound food | 143 |
| Outworkers | 4 |
| Piggeries | 1 |
| Billeting | 150 |
| Shops Acts | 12 |
| War damaged property | 507 |
| War-damaged food | 60 |
| Air raid shelters | 15 |
| 3,652 |