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
Chingford 1940
[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 2,344, as compared with 4,154 in the
previous year; the defects dealt with numbered 371, as compared
with 624 in 1939.
Table 2
| Visits Paid | Nuisances or Defects found | |
|---|---|---|
| Housing Act | 7 | 46 |
| Re-visits—Re-Housing Act | 127 | |
| On complaint | 561 | 318 |
| Miscellaneous | 64 | 3 |
| Infectious Diseases | 165 | |
| Slaughterhouses | 42 | |
| Meat and Food Shops | 250 | 2 |
| Factories | 5 | 1 |
| Outworkers | 8 | |
| Bakehouses | 12 | |
| Cowsheds | 3 | |
| Dairies and Milk Shops | 4 | |
| Pigsties | 1 | |
| Drainage | 24 | |
| Smoke Observations | 5 | |
| Re-Inspections re Notices Served | 628 | |
| Rats and Mice Destruction Order | 60 | |
| Private Slaughtering | 2 | |
| Visits to Picture Houses, etc. | 1 | |
| Shops Acts | 2 | |
| Housing Act (Overcrowding) | 9 | |
| Refuse Collection and Disposal | 5 | |
| Council Houses | 125 | |
| Milk samples | 16 | |
| Water samples | 2 | |
| Re-Housing-Homeless persons | 17 | |
| Refuse Disposal Works | 83 | |
| Cleansing visits | 40 | |
| Inspections prior to entering Council Houses | 2 | |
| Inspections for Council house tenants | 5 | |
| Refugees | 18 | |
| Food sampling | 4 | |
| Visits re permitted Nos. | 3 | |
| Domestic servants' register | 1 | 1 |
| 2,301 | 371 |