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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 1950
[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 330, as compared with 358 in the previous year
and 550 for the year 1948.
The total inspections made on complaint was 745 and the
number of defects or nuisances revealed was 447, which are
analysed in the following table. Informal notices were at once
served on the owners or occupiers of the premises concerned.
TABLE 1.
| General Housing | 87 |
| Blocked Sewers | 180 |
| Defective Sewers | 22 |
| Defective Water Fittings | 5 |
| Defective Water Waste Preventers | 2 |
| Blocked Yard and W.C. Drains | 13 |
| Defective Drainage | 26 |
| Unsound Food | 12 |
| Absence of and Defective Dustbins | 38 |
| Lack of Proper Water Supply | 1 |
| Nuisance from Poultry | 6 |
| Noise, etc., Factory Premises | 2 |
| Verminous Premises | 11 |
| Alleged Pollution of Water Supply | 1 |
| Offensive Accumulations | 18 |
| Nuisance from Flies | 2 |
| Nuisance from Smoke, etc. | 6 |
| Animals kept so as to be a Nuisance | 7 |
| Dirty Premises | 1 |
| Road Cleansing | 2 |
| Overcrowding | 4 |
| Defective Water Closets | 1 |
| 447 |