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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 1943
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Chingford]
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SANITARY INSPECTION OF THE AREA
Inspections on Complaint
The number of complaints received at the office and recorded
in the register was 224, as compared with 331 in the previous
year and 436 for the year 1940.
The total inspections made on complaint was 292 and the
number of defects or nuisances revealed was 353, which are analysed
in the following table. Informal notices were at once served on
the owners or occupiers of the premises concerned.
Table 1
| Dirty Premises | 44 |
| Defective roofs, spoutings and eaves gutters | 32 |
| Blocked yard and W.C. drains | 12 |
| Defective yard paving | 1 |
| Blocked sewers | 68 |
| Defective sewers | 12 |
| Sinks and waste pipes defective | 5 |
| Accumulations of offensive matter | 6 |
| Ashbins defective | 19 |
| W.C.s without proper flushing arrangements | 4 |
| Insufficient water supply | 4 |
| Water closets defective | 11 |
| Animals kept so as to be a nuisance | 1 |
| Pollution of watercourse | 1 |
| Defective sashcords | 6 |
| Water fittings defective | 13 |
| Vermin | 8 |
| Defective plaster of walls and ceilings | 29 |
| Dampness | 13 |
| Defective external brickwork and chimneys | 113 |
| Washboilers defective | 1 |
| Defective drainage | 4 |
| Defective floors | 6 |
| Defective firegrates and flues | 15 |
| Woodwork, windows and doors defective | 25 |
| 353 |