London's Pulse: Medical Officer of Health reports 1848-1972

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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 1958

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Twickenham]

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Table: Table 9Summary of Visits, Inspections, etc.

Table 9

Summary of Visits, Inspections, etc.

Dwelling-houses for housing defects under Public Health Act:Number
(a) After complaint909
(b) Subsequent visits2267
Dwelling-houses under Housing Act.599
Dwelling-houses under Rent Act594
Dwelling-houses:
Housing applications, specially investigated52
Infected dwelling-houses:
(a) After notified infectious disease (other than tuberculosis)511
(b) Contacts156
(c) Fumigations after infectious disease12
(d) Tuberculosis enquiries and fumigations3
School and church halls10
Swimming baths-
Water sampling:
(a) Swimming baths22
(b) Dwelling-houses9
Business premises-
Cinemas, dance halls, billiard halls37
Offensive trade premises-
Stables, piggeries, keeping of animals66
Houses let in lodgings-
Factories Acts, 1937 and 1948:
Factories with mechanical power218
Factories without mechanical power11
Outworkers' premises-
Underground rooms2
Hairdressing premises23
Tents., vans and sheds6
Smoke nuisances295
Fairgrounds-
Drainage: Testing by:
(a) Smoke99
(b) Coloured water108
(c) Water24
(d) Breaking down217
Public sewers505
Watercourses and ditches1
Means of escape in case of fire-
Land and tips74
Septic tanks and cesspools-
Sanitary conveniences — including public-houses15
Miscellaneous visits1748
Visits not inspections1858
Rodent control6
Verminous premises:
(a) Rats and mice: After complaints or from survey154
(b) Bug infestations: Number of premises visited43
(c) Beetles5
(d) Other vermin160
(e) Scabies-
Inspections for supervision of food:
Unfit foodstuffs other than meat197
Slaughterhouses-