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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 1959
[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 1168 as compared with 811 for 1958 and 793 in 1957.
The total inspections made on complaint was 505 and the number
of defects or nuisances revealed was 838 which are analysed in the
following table. Informal notices were at once served on the onwers
or occupiers of the premises concerned.
TABLE 1
| Nuisance from noise | 14 |
| Aged Person | 1 |
| Nuisance from smoke, odour, dust and bonfires | 33 |
| Housing defects | 58 |
| Obstructed sewers and drains | 372 |
| Defective sewers | 11 |
| Defective drains | 11 |
| Defective W.C.'s | 6 |
| Infestation of insects, flies, ants, etc. | 19 |
| Verminous Houses | 10 |
| Animals kept so as to be a nuisance | 4 |
| Offensive accumulations | 14 |
| Condition of food | 29 |
| Defective and/or insufficient dustbins | 8 |
| Water supply | 12 |
| Flooding of gardens, houses, etc. | 13 |
| Shops | 4 |
| Nuisance from water courses | 9 |
| Wasps Infestations | 210 |
| 838 |