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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 1968

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Sutton]

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Section 3. (Registration-Mobile Radioactive Apparatus):
Inspection Services Ltd., Oldfields Road, Sutton.
Radiographic and Associated Testing Services, 43 Senga Road, Hackbridge.
Section 6/7. (Authorisation-Disposal and Accumulation of Radiactive Waste):
Radiological Protection Service, Clifton Avenue, Belmont.
Royal Marsden Hospital, and the Institute of Cancer Research, Downs
Road, Belmont.

Table: SUMMARY OF COMPLAINTS, INSPECTIONS AND WORK DONEInvestigations were made with regard to 6,192 complaints, as follows:-

SUMMARY OF COMPLAINTS, INSPECTIONS AND WORK DONE

Investigations were made with regard to 6,192 complaints, as follows:-

19681969
Accumulations7166
Animals so kept etc.46
Burst pipes22
Clean Air-Contraventions9141
Dampness136127
Drainage defects8382
Drains obstructed2,0152,035
Dustbins68
Factories Actl-
Food contaminated8992
Food unsound7796
Fouling of Footpaths930
General Defective Conditions6169
Insects and Pests497809
Litter Act Contraventions2-
Miscellaneous110116
Noise5577
Obnoxious Effluvia92111
Overcrowding28
Public Conveniences16
Refuse Collection14695
Rivers46
Rodents1,6651,631
Roofs defective2915
Shops Act contraventions45
Sink Waste Pipes27
Verminous premises148
Water Supply164
5,1396,192

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Seventeen thousand, eight hundred and five inspections and re-inspections
were made for the purposes set out below:-
1968 1969
Animal Boarding Establishments 3 9
Clean Air Act 652 622
Consumer Protection Act - 1
Cowsheds 1 -
Diseases of Animals Act - 60
Employment Agencies 7 8
Establishments for Massage & Special
Treatment l4 31
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