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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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18.
Summary of Inspections
The total number of visits paid by the Public Health Inspectors
and other personnel of the Health Department staff to various
premises for all purposes is summarised below, together with the
number of nuisances or defects found under specific headings.
The visits numbered 8344 as compared with 7669 in the previous
year, and the defects dealt with numbered 1073 as compared with 1060
in 1958.
TABLE 2
| Visits Paid | Nuisances or Defects found and dealt with | |
|---|---|---|
| Housing Acts 1936 and 1957 | ||
| Inspections | 124 | 57 |
| Re-inspections re Notices served | 67 | |
| Improvement Grants | 79 | |
| Overcrowding | ||
| On complaint | 723 | 678 |
| Infectious Diseases | 41 | |
| Retail Pood Premises | ||
| Meat | 243 | 6 |
| Fish | 83 | 1 |
| Fried Fish | 46 | 2 |
| General Provisions | 382 | 5 |
| Other Shops | 407 | 9 |
| Restaurant and other food preparing | ||
| premises | 175 | 8 |
| Ice Cream Premises | 187 | 5 |
| Itinerant Ice Cream Vendors | 39 | |
| Street Food Vendors | 21 | |
| Food Sampling | ||
| Ice Cream | 50 | |
| Milk | 12 | |
| Other Foods | 76 | |
| Drugs | 9 | |
| Water | 6 | |
| Factories | 212 | 2 |
| Slaughterhouse s | 36 | 1 |
| Bakehouses | 33 | 1 |
| Dairies | 22 | |
| Outworkers | 229 | |
| Rent Act, Certs, of Disrepair | 1 | |
| c/f | 3303 | 775 |