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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 1956
[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 823 as compared with 600 for
1955 and 505 in 1954.
The total inspections made on complaint was 536 and the
number of defects or nuisances revealed was 823, 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 noise | 9 |
| Overcrowding | 7 |
| Nuisance from smoke, odour, dust and bonfires | 42 |
| Housing defects | 91 |
| Obstructed sewers and drains | 331 |
| Defective sewers | 7 |
| Defective drains | 18 |
| Defective W.C.s. | 17 |
| Infestations of insects, flies, ants, etc. | 92 |
| Verminous persons | 1 |
| Animals kept so as to be a nuisance | 6 |
| Rodent Infestations (rats and mice) | 116 |
| Offensive accumulations | 13 |
| Condition of Food | 22 |
| Defective and/or insufficient dustbins | 7 |
| Water supply | 19 |
| Flooding of gardens, houses, etc. | 16 |
| Continued/ | |