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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 1964
[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 13 to 45)
RECORD OF INSPECTIONS MADE, COMPLAINTS INVESTIGATED AND NOTICES SERVED
| Visits | |
|---|---|
| Animal Boarding Establishments | 8 |
| Advisory: Housing & Public Health: Special Inspections .... | 1,340 |
| Bakehouses | 14 |
| Butchers: Grocers: Greengrocers: Fishmongers, etc. | 819 |
| Cinemas: Theatres: Halls | 2 |
| Clean Air Act: Smoke observations: Deposit gauges: | |
| Volumetric, enquiries etc. | 473 |
| Clean Air Act, Smoke Control Areas - Survey visits | |
| and revisits | 3,570 |
| Dairies: Milk Purveyors | 32 |
| Factories: Workplaces | 189 |
| Food & Drugs Act sampling | 184 |
| Food Poisoning enquiries | 13 |
| Hairdressers & Barbers premises | 11 |
| Heating Appliances (Consumers Protection Act, 1961) | – |
| Hospitals: Schools - spraying of kitchens | – |
| Houses in Multiple Occupation | 26 |
| Ice Cream, Manufacture, storage and sale of | 52 |
| Ice Cream sampling (Bacteriological) | 81 |
| Infectious Diseases | 192 |
| Licensed Public Houses | 5 |
| Merchandise Marks Act | 103 |
| Milk/Water sampling (Bacteriological) | 115 |
| Miscellaneous | 3,073 |
| Noise Nuisances - Investigations | 261 |
| Offices, Shops & Railway Premises | 4 |
| Outworkers premises | 73 |
| Overcrowding: Permitted Numbers | 281 |
| Pet Animals Act | 10 |
| Rag Flock Act | – |
| Re-inspections | 1,969 |
| Restaurants: Cafe Kitchens: Dining Rooms etc. | 94 |
| Rodent Control Inspections | 5,434 |
| School & Public conveniences | 56 |
| Schools/Industrial Canteen Kitchens | 17 |
| Shops under Shops Act | 319 |
| Spraying of premises - various insect pests | 9 |
| Stables: Piggeries: Passages: Ditches | 193 |
| Verminous Premises | 2 |
| TOTAL19,024 | |
| Number of complaints received and investigated | 652 |
| Premises at which defects :or nuisances were discovered | 1,706 |
| Number of defects or nuisances discovered | 2,268 |
| " " " " " remedied | 2,105 |
| " " " " " in hand | 29 |
| " " " " " outstanding | 134 |
| Number of informal notices served | 151 |