Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Carshalton]
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Offices | 20 |
Bakehouses | 11 |
Stables | 12 |
Smoke Observations | 4 |
Outworkers Premises | 21 |
Air Raid (Public Shelters) | 9 |
Piggeries | 25 |
Wasps' Nests | 43 |
Vermin (Scabies and Head Lice) | 228 |
A.R.P. | 270 |
Food and Drugs and other samples | 193 |
Shop Premises | 145 |
7,610 |
Seven hundred and eighty-seven informal notices were served concerning the following matters:—
General Defective Conditions | 219 |
Rats and Mice | 137 |
Accumulations and Deposits | 14 |
Obstructed Drains | 43 |
Drainage Defects | 70 |
Verminous Premises | 39 |
Dustbins | 179 |
Animal Food Storage | 4 |
Water Supply | 3 |
Animals | 7 |
Factory Acts | 4 |
Food Contamination | 7 |
Unsatisfactory Food Premises | 12 |
Miscellaneous (Overcrowding) | 2 |
Burst Pipes | 5 |
Overcrowding | 41 |
Smoke Nuisances | 1 |
787 |
Forty-six formal notices were served by authority of the Council under the following Acts:—
Section 93 Public Health Act, 1936 | 19 |
Section 39 do. do. | 3 |
Section 75 do. do. | 6 |
Section 24 do. do. | 5 |
Section 79 do. do. | 1 |
Section 9 Housing Act, 1936 | 10 |
Byelaws | 1 |
Rats and Mice (Destruction) Act, 1919 | 1 |
46 |
As a result of investigations made and notices served, the following work was carried out: —
Brickwork Repaired and/or Re-pointed | 4 |
Ceiling plaster repaired and made good | 75 |
cleansed and purified | 98 |