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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
Richmond upon Thames 1925
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Richmond]
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sanitary defects remedied and improvements made under this
heading was 3,053.
The following list shews the number of routine inspections and
visits made :—
Inspections during 1925.
| Houses inspected and particulars recorded (H.T.P. Acts) | 502 |
| Houses visited (P.H. Acts) | 1017 |
| Re-visits to houses and other premises | 1781 |
| Miscellaneous visits | 539 |
| Visits to works in progress | 644 |
| ,, factories | 25 |
| ,, workshops, bakehouses, etc. | 220 |
| ,, outworkers'premises | 25 |
| ,, workplaces, tearooms, &c. | 101 |
| ,, dairies, cowsheds and milkshops | 53 |
| ,, ice cream vendors | 30 |
| ,, food stores | 193 |
| „ slaughterhouses | 130 |
| „ fried fish shops | 43 |
| „ stables | 138 |
| piggeries | 10 |
| ,, public urinals | 138 |
| ,, under Destructive Insects and Pests Acts | 42 |
| „ „ Canal Boats Acts | 9 |
| Canal boats inspected | 0 |
| Visits to school premises | 30 |
| 145 | |
| „ re Tuberculosis | 47 |
| Smoke observations | 43 |
| Special visits re Shops Acts | 757 |
| Visits under Rats and Mice Destruction Act | 86 |
| Total visits made | 6748 |