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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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22.
Summary of Inspections
The total number of visits paid by the Public Health Inspectors
and other personnel of the Health Department staff to variouspremises
for all purposes is summarised below, together with the
number of nuisances or defects found under specific headings.
The visits numbered 8597 as compared with 8295 in the previous
year, and the defects dealt with numbered 1384 as compared with 1073
in 1959.

Table: TABLE 2

TABLE 2

Visits PaidNuisances or Defects found and dealt with
Housing Acts 1936 and 1957
Inspections25080
Re-inspections re Notices served35
Improvement Grants110
Overcrowding2
On complaint605610
Infectious Diseases91
Retail Food Premises
Meat2535
Fish1531
Fried Fish842
General Provisions3956
Other Shops42710
Restaurant and other food preparing premises15612
Ice Cream Premises1776
Itinerant Ice Cream Vendors28
Street Food Vendors19
Food Sampling
Ice Cream52
Milk21
Other Foods104
Drugs7
Water16
Factories1462
Slaughterhouses--
Bakehouses463
Dairies23
Outworkers165
Rent Act, Certs. of Disrepair7
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