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 Chingford]
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Summary of Inspections
The total number of visits paid by the Sanitary Inspectors to
various premises for all purposes is summarised below, together with
the number of defects found under specific headings.
The visits numbered 3,420 as compared with 3,585 in the
previous year; the defects dealt with numbered 784, as compared
with 1,139 in 1937.
The figures stated above reflect in some small measure the
disturbance in routine caused by the crisis in September and for
some months afterwards.
Table 2
Visits Paid | Nuisances or Defects found | |
---|---|---|
Housing Act | 51 | 407 |
Re-visits—Housing Act | 484 | |
On complaint | 458 | 345 |
Miscellaneous | 82 | 7 |
Infectious disease | 170 | |
Slaughterhouses | 79 | |
Meat and Food Shops | 604 | 9 |
Dairies and Milk Shops | 24 | |
Drains tested | 12 | 1 |
Re-visits | 829 | |
Rats | 19 | |
Private slaughtering | 2 | |
Houses-let-in-Lodgings | 13 | 4 |
Housing Act (Overcrowding) | 266 | 7 |
Bakehouses | 19 | |
Refuse Collection and Disposal | 51 | |
Council Houses | 25 | |
Milk samples | 10 | |
Water samples | 8 | |
Meat Regulations | 10 | 2 |
Shops Acts | 20 | 1 |
Petroleum Acts | 18 | |
Factories | 44 | |
Cowsheds | 13 | |
Offensive trades | 4 | |
Pigsties | 3 | |
Smoke abatement | 12 | |
Food poisoning | 2 | |
Verminous premises | 1 | |
Swimming Pool | 5 | |
Ice Cream Vendors | 10 | |
Outworkers | 70 | |
Picture Houses | 1 | 1 |
Food and Drugs Act | 12 | |
3431 | 784 |