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Sutton and Cheam 1962
[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(30) of the Public Health Officers Regulations 1959
(Pages 13 to41)
RECORD OF INSPECTIONS MADE, COMPLAINTS INVESTIGATED AND NOTICES SERVED
| Visits | |
|---|---|
| Advisory: Housing & Public Health: Special Inspections | 1,291 |
| Bakehouses | 10 |
| Butchers: Grocers: Greengrocers: Fishmongers etc. | 1,265 |
| Cinemas: Theatres, Halls | 12 |
| Clean Air Act: Smoke observations: Deposit gauges: Volumetric etc. | 442 |
| Dairies: Milk Purveyors | 36 |
| Factories: Workplaces | 635 |
| Food & Drugs Act sampling | 206 |
| Food Poisoning enquiries | 49 |
| Hairdressers: Barbers premises | 82 |
| Heating Appliances (Consumer Protection Act, 1961) | 4 |
| Hospitals: Schools - spraying of kitchens | 6 |
| Houses in multiple occupation | 81 |
| Ice Cream: Manufacture, storage and sale of | 153 |
| Ice Cream sampling (Bacteriological) | 150 |
| Infectious Diseases | 279 |
| Licensed Public Houses | 22 |
| Merchandise Marks Act | 198 |
| Milk: Water sampling (Bacteriological) | 121 |
| Miscellaneous | 1,511 |
| Outworkers premises | 77 |
| Overcrowding: Permitted numbers | 255 |
| Pet Animals Act | 18 |
| Rag Flock Act | - |
| Re-inspections | 2,573 |
| Restaurants: Cafe Kitchens, Dining Rooms etc | 110 |
| Rodent Control Inspections | 7,443 |
| School and Public Conveniences | 58 |
| Schools: Industrial Canteen Kitchens | 42 |
| Shops under Shops Act | 760 |
| Spraying of premises - various insect pests | 14 |
| Stables: Passages: Piggeries: Ditches | 81 |
| Verminous premises | 15 |
| Total | 17,999 |
| Number of complaints received and investigated | 451 |
| Premises at which defects or nuisances were discovered | 1,492 |
| Number of defects or nuisances discovered | 1,974 |
| „ „ „ „ „ remedied | 1,648 |
| „ „ „ „ „ in hand | 244 |
| „ „ „ „ „ outstanding | 82 |
| Number of informal notices served | 390 |
Statutory Notices were served as under:-
| Public Health Act 1936, Section 24 | 15 |
| „ „ „ „ 39 | - |
| „ „ „ „ 45 | 1 |
| „ „ „ „ 75 | - |
| Sutton & Cheam Corporation Act 1951 | |
| Section 42 | 1 |
| Total | 17 |