Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Twickenham]
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T able 9.
Summary of Visits, Inspections, etc.
Dwelling-houses for housing defects under Public Health Act: | Number |
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(a) After complaint | 1,134 |
(b) Subsequent visits | 2,795 |
Dwelling-houses under Housing Act: After complaint | 556 |
Dwelling-houses: | |
Housing applications, specially investigated | 68 |
Infected dwelling-houses: | |
(a) After notified infectious disease (other than tuberculosis) | 1,081 |
(b) Contacts | 552 |
(c) Fumigations after infectious disease | 16 |
(d) Tuberculosis enquiries and fumigations | 9 |
School and church halls | 13 |
Swimming baths | - |
Water sampling: | |
(a) Swimming baths | 14 |
(b) Dwelling-houses | 23 |
Business premises | - |
Cinemas, dance halls, billiard halls | 28 |
Offensive trade premises | - |
Stables, piggeries, keeping of animals .... | 25 |
Houses let in lodgings | - |
Factories Acts, 1937 and 1948: | |
Factories with mechanical power | 71 |
Factories without mechanical power | 1 |
Outworkers' premises | 1 |
Common lodging houses | - |
Underground rooms | 1 |
Hairdressing premises | 4 |
Tents, vans and sheds | 4 |
Smoke nuisances | 247 |
Fairgrounds | 2 |
Drainage: Testing by: | |
(a) Smoke | 75 |
(b) Coloured water | 60 |
(c) Water | 38 |
(d) Breaking down | 154 |
Public sewers | 636 |
Watercourses and ditches | - |
Means of escape in case of fire | - |
Land and tips | 65 |
Septic tanks and cesspools | 1 |
Sanitary conveniences—including public-houses | 17 |
Miscellaneous visits | 1,730 |
Visits not inspections | 1,983 |
Rodent control | 7 |
Verminous premises: | |
(a) Rats and mice: After complaints or from survey | 63 |
(b) Bug infestations: Number of premises visited | 60 |
(c) Cockroaches | 2 |
(d) Other vermin | 185 |
(e) Scabies | - |