London's Pulse: Medical Officer of Health reports 1848-1972
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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 1954
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Richmond]
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| Roofs leaking or defective | 60 |
| Rooms requiring cleansing | 102 |
| Sanitary accommodation insufficient | 4 |
| Sanitary accommodation not separate for sexes | — |
| Sinks insanitary or defective | 13 |
| Sites requiring concrete | 1 |
| Soilpipes leaking or defective | 15 |
| Staircases defective | 8 |
| Ventilation of rooms inadequate | 3 |
| Verminous premises | 3 |
| Walls: plaster defective | 135 |
| Walls: brickwork defective | 13 |
| Washing facilities in food premises inadequate | 5 |
| Wastepipes leaking or defective | 27 |
| Water fittings defective | 46 |
| Water supply cut off | 22 |
| Water supply inadequate | 1 |
| W.C.'s leaking or defective | 34 |
| Windows defective | 64 |
| Miscellaneous defects | 44 |
| 985 | |
| ___ |
At the end of the year, 755 of the defects discovered had been
abated, the work of remedying 90 was in hand, and the balance of
140 was still outstanding.
In order to see that the defects were being properly remedied 1499
visits were paid to the various premises.
NOTICES SERVED TO REMEDY DEFECTS AND ABATE NUISANCES.
| Informal Action. | |
| Preliminary intimations | 264 |
| Verbal intimations | 72 |
| Interviews | 761 |