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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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Summary of Inspections
The total number of visits paid by the Sanitary Inspectors
and other personnel of the Health Department staff to various
premises for all purposes is summarised below, together with the
number of nuisances or defects found under specific headings.
The visits numbered 6,852, as compared with 6,884 in the
previous year; the defects dealt with numbered 947, as compared
with 1,269 in 1949.

Table: TABLE 2 .

TABLE 2 .

Housing Act, 1936.Visits PaidNuisances or Defects found and dealt with
Inspections48285
Re-inspections re Notices served596
Re Overcrowding22
On Complaint745447
Infectious Diseases124
Retail Trade Premises :
Meat137
Fish63
Fried Fish46
General Provisions173
Other Food Shops131
Restaurants and other Food-Preparing Premises59
Ice Cream Premises50
Factories13417
Bakehouses351
Dairies8
Pigstyes14
Re-visits re Notices Served (P.H. Act)589
Rodent Control2,702197
Private Slaughtering1
Shops Acts (Sanitary Conditions)8
(Hours of closing)135
(Young Persons Employment)33
Council Houses133
Collection and Disposal of Refuse and Salvage145
Kitchen Waste—Communal Bins56
Schools27
Hairdressers' Premises15
Swimming Pool6
Miscellaneous Visits287
Places of Entertainment8
Public Conveniences14
Petroleum Acts6
Outworkers214
Smoke Observations14
Pollution of Rivers and Watercourses61
Street Food Vendors9
Movable Dwellings4
6,852947