Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Sutton and Cheam]
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SANITARY INSPECTION OF THE AREA
Report of the Chief Sanitary Inspector under
Article 27 of the Sanitary Officers
(Outside London) Regulations 1935
(Pages 9 to 28)
Record of Inspections and Notices Served
Special Inspections: Interviews and advisory visits | 1, 393 |
Reinspections | 3, 487 |
Visits to works In progress | 833 |
" Factories/Workplaces | 435 |
" Bakehouses | 35 |
" Outworkers premises | 90 |
" Butchers, Grocers and other food premises | 493 |
" Dairies and Milk Purveyors premises | 27 |
" Ice Cream premises | 158 |
" Stables/Passages/Pigsties/Ditches | 56 |
" Restaurant/Cafe and School Canteen kitchens | 78 |
" Premises re rodent Infestations | 9, 652 |
" Tents/Vans/Sheds | 5 |
" Cinemas/Theatres/Halls | 16 |
" Premises re Infectious diseases | 180 |
" " overcrowding and permitted numbers | 351 |
" " food complaints (Shops and Houses) | 320 |
" Barbers' and Hairdressers premises | 75 |
" School and public conveniences | 38 |
" Verminous houses | 17 |
" Shops under the Shops Acts | 401 |
" re the taking of Food and Drug samples | 214 |
" " Bacteriological Milk/Water samples | 105 |
" " samples of ice cream | 126 |
" Smoke Observations | 6 |
" under the Merchandise Marks Act | 48 |
" " Rag Flock Acts | 11 |
" to Licenced Public Houses | 43 |
Miscellaneous visits | 2, 801 |
Total | 21, 494 |
Number of complaints received and investigated | 642 |
Premises at which defects or nuisances were discovered | 1, 650 |
Dwelling-houses surveyed for housing defects under the Public Health or Housing Acts | 255 |
Number of defects or nuisances discovered | 2,786 |
" " " remedied | 2, 231 |
" " " in hand | 230 |
" " " outstanding | 325 |
Number of Informal notices served | 1,218 |