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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 1960

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Twickenham]

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Table 9.

Table: Summary of Visits, Inspections, etc.

Summary of Visits, Inspections, etc.

Housing Acts:Number
Clearance Areas842
Individual Unfit Houses526
Underground Rooms68
Overcrowding14
Housing Applications371
Rent Act Certificates105
Public Health Act:
Drain testing .106
Provision and maintenance of drainage systems960
Public Sewers896
Septic Tanks and Cesspools11
Provision of dustbins6
Dirty/verminous premises and articles208
Verminous persons and clothing8
Wasps, flies and insects231
Sanitary accommodation at Licensed Premises6
Statutory nuisances relating to Premises2838
„ „ „ „ Animals106
„ „ „ „ Accumulations224
„ „ „ „ Dust and Effluvia91
„ „ „ Workplaces1
Infectious Disease843
Tents, Vans, Sheds20
Outside Interviews433
Miscellaneous matters613
Factories Acts:
Factories with mechanical power349
Factories without mechanical power20
Outworkers-
Rodent Control101
Clean Air Act614
Clean Air Act Survey4851
Shops Acts6
water A6t71
Pet Animals Act28