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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 1960
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Sutton and Cheam]
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SANITARY INSPECTION OF THE AREA
Report of the Chief Public Health Inspector under
Regulation 25 (20) of the Public Health Officers Regulations, 1959.
(Pages 12 to 41)
| Visits | |
|---|---|
| Special Inspections: Interviews and advisory visits | 1,421 |
| Reinspection visits | 1,787 |
| Visits to works in progress | 413 |
| " Factories/Workplaces | 693 |
| " Bakehouses | 16 |
| " Outworkers premises | 128 |
| " Butchers/Grocers/Greengrocers/Fishmongers etc. | 1,270 |
| " Dairies/Milk Purveyors | 45 |
| " Ice Cream Premises (Manufacture and sale of) | 168 |
| " Restaurant/Cafe Kitchens, Dining Rooms etc. | 100 |
| " School/Industrial Canteen Kitchens | 49 |
| " Stables Passages/Piggeries and Ditches | 93 |
| " Premises in connection with rodent control | 6,314 |
| " Cinemas/Theatres Halls | 16 |
| " Hairdressers and Barbers Premises | 63 |
| " School and Public Convergences | 64 |
| " Verminous Premises | 16 |
| '' Shops under the Shops Act | 675 |
| " Licensed Public Houses | 29 |
| " Hospitals/Schools - spraying of kitchens | 37 |
| " Other premises - spraying for insect pests | 135 |
| Visits re Infectious Diseases | 445 |
| " Food Poisoning Enquities | 11 |
| " Overcrowding and permitted numbers | 304 |
| " Food & Drugs sampling | 206 |
| " Sampling of milk and water (Bacteriological) | 142 |
| " Sampling of ice cream (Bacteriological) | 158 |
| " Merchandise Marks Acts | 186 |
| " Rag Flock Act | 3 |
| " Pet Animals Act | 23 |
| " Heating Appliances (Fireguard Regulations) | 16 |
| " Atmospheric Pollution Gauges/Smoke observations | 247 |
| Miscellaneous visits | 1,888 |
| Total | 17,161 |
| Number of complaints received and investigated | 408 |
| Premises at which defects or nuisances were discovered | 1,358 |
| Number of defects or nuisances discovered | 1,642 |
| " " " remedied | 1,319 |
| " " " in hand | 144 |
| " " " outstanding | 179 |
| Number of Informal notices served | 334 |
| Statutory Notices were served as under | |
| Public Health Act 1936, Section 24 | 2 |
| " " " 39 | 1 |
| " " " 45 | 1 |
| Total | 4 |