Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Chingford]
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17.
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 7,693 as compared with 7,250 in the previous year; the defects dealt with numbered 1,014 as compared with 919 in 1951.
TABLE 2.
Visits Paid. | Nuisances or Defects found & dealt with. | |
---|---|---|
Housing Act, 1936 Inspections | 77 | 547 |
Re-inspections re Notices served | 12J8 | |
Re overcrowding | 16 | |
On complaint | 506 | 311 |
Infectious Diseases | 253 | |
Retail Food Premises: | ||
Meat | 78 | |
Fish | 18 | |
Fried Fish | 8 | |
General Provisions | 144 | |
Other Food Shops | 191 | 25 |
Restaurant and Other Food | ||
Preparing Premises | 172 | |
Ice Cream Premises | 150 | |
Food Sampling: | ||
Ice Cream | 61 | |
Milk | 11 | |
Other Foods | 75 | |
Drugs | 11 | |
Factories | 86 | 8 |
Bakehouses | 31 | |
Dairies | 3 | |
Pigstyes | 13 | |
Re-visits re Notices served (P.II. Act) | 505 | |
Other re-visits | 166 | |
Rodent Control | 2539 | 117 |
Shops Act (Sanitary Conditions) | 181 | 2 |
(Hours of Closing) | 116 | |
(Young Persons Employment) | 55 | |
Council Houses | 172 | |
Collection and Disposal of | ||
Refuse and Salvage | 141 | |
Schools | 45 | 4 |
Hairdressers' Premises | 22 | |
Swimming Pool | 9 | |
Carried Forward | 7093 | 1014 |