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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 1949
[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 358, as compared with 550 in the previous
year and 508 for the year 1947.
The total inspections made on complaint was 792 and the
number of defects or nuisances revealed was 460, 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 | 2 |
| Blocked yard and W.C. drains | 19 |
| Blocked Sewers | 189 |
| Defective Sewers | 9 |
| Defective Drainage | 28 |
| Absence of and Defective Dustbins | 12 |
| Defective Water Waste Preventers | 12 |
| Defective W.C.'s | 6 |
| Lack of Proper Water Supply | 2 |
| Defective Water Fittings | 3 |
| Verminous Premises | 13 |
| Animals Kept So As To Be a Nuisance | 8 |
| Offensive Accumulations | 20 |
| General Housing Defects | 128 |
| Overcrowding | 1 |
| Pollution of Water Courses | 1 |
| Nuisances from Smoke, etc. | 8 |
| 460 |