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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
Brentford and Chiswick 1964
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Brentford and Chiswick]
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The total number of visits and revisits made during the year by the Public Health Inspectors was 8.860 and below is a summary of these visits
| Visits | Revisits | |
|---|---|---|
| Atmospheric Pollution Stations | 733 | l |
| Accumulations of refuse | 64 | 47 |
| Complaints Condition of houses | 216 | 720 |
| Caravans, house boats, etc | 1 | 2 |
| Catering Establishments | 84 | 133 |
| Drainage Works | 588 | 1,228 |
| Factories - with mechanical power | 63 | 71 |
| Factories without mechanical power | 11 | 4 |
| Food premises (excluding catering establishments) | 16 2 | 347 |
| Pood premises inspection of unsound food | 117 | 19 |
| Houses Housing Acts | 53 | 24 |
| Houses Overcrowding | 32 | 3 |
| Houses Multiple Occupation | 48 | 63 |
| Ice Cream Vendors | 80 | – |
| Infectious disease | 73 | 40 |
| Milk Vendors | 2 | 3 |
| Noise | 58 | 73 |
| Offensive odours | 66 | 38 |
| Outworkers | 31 | – |
| Rats and Mice | 705 | 435 |
| Shops Shop Act inspections | 55 | 71 |
| Snoke observations | 95 | 45 |
| Vermin, insect pests etc | 76 | 31 |
| Miscellaneous | 950 | 110 |
| Old People (including laundry service) | 520 | 52 |
| Pathological Laboratory | 145 | – |
| Offices Shops and Railway Premises Act enquiries | 199 | 1 |
| Offices Shops and Railway Premises Act inspections | 67 | 5 |
| 5,294 | 3,566 | |
| No Answers | 794 | — |
| 6,088 | 3,566 |
There was an increase in the total number of visits and revisits from
6,436 in 1963 to 8 860 in 1964
The principal increases were on rat infestation duties, inspection of
nuisances caused by faulty drains and sewers, and reinspection of the works
carried out to improve these, review of premises where food is handled and
visits to elderly people in need of assistance with sanitary problems Visits
for all these purposes have been increasing rapidly during recent years, and
new duties have been added with the coming into operation of the Offices Shops
and Railway Premises Act The real emergency visits for enquiries into epi
demic disease and food poisoning to which all other visits would have to give
way have fortunately not been large for some years The last considerable
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