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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 1951
[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 413, as compared with 330 in the previous year
and 358 for the year 1949.
Informal notices were at once served on the owners or occupiers of the premises concerned.
TABLE 1
| General Housing Defects | 68 |
| Blocked Sewers | 178 |
| Defective Sewers | 5 |
| Defective Water Fittings | 9 |
| Defective Water Waste Preventers | 2 |
| Blocked Yard and W.C.. Drains | 35 |
| Defective Drainage | 39 |
| Unsound Food | 4 |
| Absence of and Defective Dustbins | 5 |
| Offensive Accumulations | 3 |
| Nuisance from Flies, Cockroaches etc. | 11 |
| Nuisance from Smoke, Dust, Odours etc. | 12 |
| Animals kept so as to be a Nuisance | 3 |
| Overcrowding | 3 |
| Defective Yard Paving | 2 |
| Burning of Rubbish | 1 |
| Unsound Food | 4 |
| 384 |