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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

Twickenham 1950

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Twickenham]

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Table: Table 11.Summary of Visits, Inspections, etc.

Table 11.

Summary of Visits, Inspections, etc.

Number
Dwelling-houses for housing defects under Public Health Act:—
(a) After complaint.1,854
(b) Subsequent visits4,604
Dwelling-houses under Housing Act:—
(a) After complaint...267
(b) Subsequent visits39
Dwelling-houses:—
Housing applications, specially investigated104
Infected dwelling-houses:—
(a) After notified infectious disease (other than tuberculosis)388
(b) Contacts ...249
(c) Fumigations after infectious disease14
(d) Phthisis enquiries and fumigations27
School and church halls23
Swimming baths3
Water sampling:—
(a) Swimming baths1
(b) Dwelling-houses9
Business premises5
Cinemas, dance halls, billiard halls47
Offensive trade premises2
Stables, piggeries, keeping of animals97
Houses let in lodgingsNil
Factories Acts, 1937 and 1948:—
Factories with mechanical power192
Factories without mechanical power15
Outworkers' premises28
Common lodging housesNil
Underground rooms36
Hairdressing premises17
Tents, vans and sheds74
Smoke nuisances90
Fairgrounds5
Drainage: Testing by:—
(a) Smoke58
(b) Coloured water30
(c) Water63
(d) Breaking down213
Re public sewers770
Watercourses and ditches6
Land and tips107
Septic tanks and cesspoolsNil
Sanitary conveniences—public-houses17
Miscellaneous visits1,043
Visits not inspections1,833
Verminous premises:—
(a) Rats and mice: (i) After complaint or from survey201
(ii) Subsequent visits511
(b) Bug infestations: Number of premises visited247
Number of premises where definite infestation existed78
(c) Cockroaches10
(d) Other vermin172