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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 1953
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Chingford]
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17.
sanitary inspection of the area.
Inspection on Complaint.
The number of complaints received at the office and
recorded in the register was 543, as compared with 301
in the previous year and 413 for the year 1951.
The total inspections made on complaint was 483 and
the number of defects or nuisances revealed was 328, 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 Defects | 55 |
| Blocked Sewers | 188 |
| Defective Sewers | 2 |
| Defective Water Fittings | 9 |
| Defective Water Closets | 5 |
| Blocked Rainwater Gullies | 10 |
| Blocked and Contaminated Watercourses | 1 |
| Defective Drainage | 4 |
| Absence of and Defective Dustbins. | 5 |
| Offensive Accumulations | 8 |
| Nuisance from Smoke, Dust,Odours etc | 23 |
| Nuisance from Insects | 14 |
| Animals Kept so as to be a Nuisance | 4 |
| Vermin in Premises | 1 |
| Overcrowding | 1 |
| Nuisance from Caravans | 1 |
| Dangerous Structures | 1 |
| 328 |