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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 1960
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Chingford]
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21.
SANITARY INSPECTION OF THE AREA
Inspection on Complaint
The number of complaints received at the office ana recorded
in the register was 924 as compared with 1168 for 1959 and 811 in
1958.
The total inspections made on complaint was 605 and the number
of defects or nuisances revealed was 721 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 | 5 |
| Aged Pel'sons | 2 |
| Nuisance from smoke, odour, dust and bonfires | 22 |
| Housing defects | 40 |
| Overcrowding | 1 |
| Obstructed sewers and drains | 377 |
| Defective sewers | 13 |
| Defective drains | 10 |
| Defective W.C's | 14 |
| Infestation of insects, flies, ants, etc. | 41 |
| Verminous Houses | 1 |
| Animals kept so as to be a nuisance | 6 |
| Offensive accumulations | 17 |
| Condition ox food | 20 |
| Defective and/or insufficient dustbins | 15 |
| Water Supply | 15 |
| Flooding of gardens, houses, etc. | 6 |
| Shops | 6 |
| Nuisance from water courses | 7 |
| Wasps Infestations, Bees & Hornets | 103 |
| 721 |