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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 1954
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Chingford]
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SANITARY INSPECTION OF THE AREA. 21.
Inspection on Complaint.
The number of complaints received at the office and
recorded in the register was 505, as compared with 543 in
the previous year and 301 for the year 1952.
The total inspections made on complaint was 309 and the
number of defects or nuisances revealed was 466, 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 | 45 |
| Blocked Sewers | 210 |
| Defective Sewers | 1 |
| Defective Water Fittings | 6 |
| Insufficient Water Closets | 4 |
| Defective Water Closets | 3 |
| Blocked Rainwater Gullies | 9 |
| Flooding of Gardens, Dwellings and Houses | |
| Defective Drainage | 7 |
| Absence of and Defective Dustbins | 5 |
| Offensive Accumulations | 1 |
| Nuisance from Smoke, Dust, Odours etc. | 30 |
| Complaints re Condition of Food | 27 |
| Nuisance from Insects | 11 |
| Animals Kept so as to be a Nuisance | 3 |
| Vermin in Premises | 1 |
| Dirty Premises | 2 |
| Overcrowding | 1 |
| Rodent Infestations | 92 |
| 466 |