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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 1958
[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 811 as compared with 793 for 1957 and 823 in 1956.
The total inspections made on complaint was 633 and the number of
defects or nuisances revealed was 616, 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 | 7 |
| Overcrowding | 3 |
| Nuisance from smoke, odour, dust and bonfires | 34 |
| Housing defects | 81 |
| Obstructed sewers and drains | 280 |
| Defective sewers | 5 |
| Defective drains | 10 |
| Defective W.C.s | 14 |
| Infestations of insects, flies, ants, etc. | 42 |
| Verminous Houses | 6 |
| Animals kept so as to be a nuisance | 9 |
| Offensive accumulations | 25 |
| Condition of food | 20 |
| Defective and/or insufficient dustbins | 11 |
| Water supply | 6 |
| Flooding of gardens, houses, etc. | 37 |