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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

Sutton and Cheam 1951

[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

Table: (Pages 9 to 28)Record of Inspections and Notices Served

(Pages 9 to 28)

Record of Inspections and Notices Served

Special Inspections: Interviews and advisory visits1, 393
Reinspections3, 487
Visits to works In progress833
" Factories/Workplaces435
" Bakehouses35
" Outworkers premises90
" Butchers, Grocers and other food premises493
" Dairies and Milk Purveyors premises27
" Ice Cream premises158
" Stables/Passages/Pigsties/Ditches56
" Restaurant/Cafe and School Canteen kitchens78
" Premises re rodent Infestations9, 652
" Tents/Vans/Sheds5
" Cinemas/Theatres/Halls16
" Premises re Infectious diseases180
" " overcrowding and permitted numbers351
" " food complaints (Shops and Houses)320
" Barbers' and Hairdressers premises75
" School and public conveniences38
" Verminous houses17
" Shops under the Shops Acts401
" re the taking of Food and Drug samples214
" " Bacteriological Milk/Water samples105
" " samples of ice cream126
" Smoke Observations6
" under the Merchandise Marks Act48
" " Rag Flock Acts11
" to Licenced Public Houses43
Miscellaneous visits2, 801
Total21, 494
Number of complaints received and investigated642
Premises at which defects or nuisances were discovered1, 650
Dwelling-houses surveyed for housing defects under the Public Health or Housing Acts255
Number of defects or nuisances discovered2,786
" " " remedied2, 231
" " " in hand230
" " " outstanding325
Number of Informal notices served1,218