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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 1955
[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 600, as compared with 505 for
1954 and 543 in 1953.
The total inspections made on complaint was 337 and the
number of defects or nuisances revealed was 620, which are
analysed in the following table. Informal notices were at
once served on the owners or occupiers of the premises concerned.
TABLE 1.
| Nuisance from smoke, odour, dust, and bonfires | 46 |
| Housing Defects | 57 |
| Obstructed Sewers and Drains | 206 |
| Defective Sewers | 8 |
| Defective Drains | 7 |
| Defecoive W. C. 's. | 2 |
| Infestations of insects, flies, ants, etc,. | 59 |
| Verminous persons | 1 |
| Animals kept so as to be a nuisance | 5 |
| Rodent Infestations (rats and mice) | 154 |
| Insufficient heating to workplace | 1 |
| Offensive accumulations | 17 |
| Condition of Food | 13 |
| Defective and/or insufficient dustbin | 6 |
| Water supply | 6 |
| Flooding of gardens, houses, etc. | 8 |
| Nuisance from water courses | 5 |
| Miscellaneous | 19 |
| 620 |