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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
West Ham 1937
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for West Ham]
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employed almost entirely on work in connection with infectious
diseases, cafe-kitchens, women's workshops, factories in which
women are employed, offices, and with outworkers. The work
done in these directions is separately dealt with under the appropriate
headings.
Work of the district inspectors. Full details of the visits
made by the district inspectors during the year are given in Table
1, and in Table II special visits are similarly dealt with. An
analysis of the work done by the district inspectors is given in
Table III.
T
V
| Investigations of cases of notifiable infectious diseases | 2,263 |
| Houses inspected following infectious diseases | |
| Visits to factories | 498 |
| ,, workshops | 259 |
| „ workplaces | 176 |
| ,, bakehouses | 230 |
| ,, dairies | |
| ,, offices (as workplaces), P.H.A. 1936 | 26 |
| ,, outworkers | 397 |
| ,, common lodging houses | |
| ,, houses let in lodgings | 20 |
| ,, cellar dwellings, underground rooms | 72 |
| ,, slaughter-houses | — |
| ,, scheduled offensive trades | 550 |
| ,, fish-fryers | 191 |
| ,, other noxious trades | 17 |
| ,, knackers' yards | |
| ,, registered hairdressers and barbers, W.H.C.A.,* section 49 | 27 |
| ,, registered premises wherein food is manufactured, W.H.C.A.,* section 67 | 127 |
| ,, registered premises occupied by vendors of food, W.H.C.A.,* section 66 | 29 |
| ,, cafe and restaurant kitchens, P.H.A., 1925 | 522 |
| ,, ice cream makers or dealers, W.H.C.A.,* section 66, and P.H.A. | 248 |
| ,, other food purveyors |
*W.H.C.A. = West Ham Corporation Act, 1937.
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