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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 1957
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Chingford]
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18.
SANITARY INSPECTION OF THE AREA
The number of complaints received at the office and recorded
in the register was 793 as compared with 823 for 1956 and 600 in
1955.
The total inspections made on complaint was 404 and the
number of defects or nuisances revealed was 778, 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 | 1 |
| Overcrowding | 3 |
| Nuisance from smoke, odour, dust and bonfires | 29 |
| Housing defects | 93 |
| Obstructed sewers and drains | 294 |
| Defective sewers | 4 |
| Defective drains | 10 |
| Defective W.C.s. | 10 |
| Infestations of insects, flies, ants, etc. | 51 |
| Verminous persons | 1 |
| Animals kept so as to be a nuisance | - |
| Rodent Infestations (rat and mice) | 171 |
| Offensive accumulations | 16 |
| Condition of food | 40 |
| Defective and/or insufficient dustbins | 3 |
| Water supply | 9 |
| Flooding of gardens, houses, etc. | 9 |