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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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18.
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 7,622 as compared with 7,693 in the
previous year; the defects dealt with numbered 890 as compared
with 1,014 in 1952.

Table: TABLE 2.

TABLE 2.

Visits PaidNuisances or Defects Pound & Dealt With
Housing Act, 1936:
Inspections126439
Re-inspections re Notices served646
Re overcrowding39
On Complaint483328
Infectious Diseases276
Retail Pood Premises:
Meat181
Pish44
Pried Pish32
General Provisions175
Other Pood Shops8010
Restaurant and Other Pood preparing Premises175
Ice Cream Premises142
Pood Sampling:
Ice Cream41
Milk15
Other Foods117
Drugs15
Factories10522
Bakehouses14
Dairies3
Pigstyes7
Re-visits re Notices served (P.H. Act)220
Other re-visits329
Rodent Control251984
Shops Act:
Sanitary Conditions2903
Hours of Closing2331
Young persons Employment148
Council Houses164
Collection and Disposal of Refuse and Salvage115
Street Cleansing35
(Carried Forward)6769887