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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
Mitcham 1943
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Mitcham]
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29
THE ANNUAL REPORT OF THE CHIEF SANITARY
INSPECTOR
To the Mayor, Aldermen and Councillors of Mitcham
Sir, Ladies and Gentlemen,
I beg to submit a summary of the visits and works carried
out in the Borough by myself and the District Sanitary
Inspectors:—
Total number of visits paid 5,033
Number of complaints received 493
Visits re complaints and sundries 1,537
Revisits 1,510
Houses inspected for defects 883
Number of rooms measured for permitted numbers 264
Number of nuisances discovered 668
Number of intimatory notices served 485
Number of nuisances abated without reports 434
Number of statutory notices served 203
Number of nuisances abated after reports 153
Visits to butchers and other food shops 535
Visits to factories 197
Visits to piggeries 92
Visits to refuse dumps 10
Visits re infectious disease 329
Visits to slaughterhouses 20
Visits to restaurant kitchens 17
Visits to stables ... ... ... ... ••• 14
Visits to schools ... ... ... ... ... ... 8
Visits to outworkers'premises ... ... ... ... 36
Details of visits to other premises are enumerated in other
sections of the report.
Character of Work Done
Roofs repaired ... ... ... ... ... ••• 129
Rainwater gutters and piping repaired or renewed ... 67