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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
Carshalton 1950
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Carshalton]
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Investigations were made with regard to 1,445 complaints as
follows:—
Accumulations 40
Animals so kept 8
Burst pipes 5
Dampness 38
Ditches and ponds 1
Drainage defects 53
Drains obstructed 320
Dustbins 183
Flies 1
Food contaminated 34
General defective conditions 127
Insects 35
Milk, dirty bottles
Miscellaneous 26
Obnoxious effluvia 28
Overcrowding 52
Pig bins 9
Rats and mice 244
Refuse collection 14
Roofs, defective 24
Sewer obstruction 8
Shops
Sink waste pipes 6
Smoke nuisance 24
Unsound food 121
Verminous premises 19
Wasps 14
Water supply 6
1,445
Eleven thousand two hundred and .fifty-eight visits of inspection
and re-inspection were made for the purposes set out below:—
Business premises 36
Cowsheds 26
Employment Agencies 3
Factories (Mechanical Power) 128
Factories (Non-Mechanical Power) 62
Food and Drugs and other samples 715
Food poisoning inquiries 6
Food premises :
Bakehouses 54
Bakers and confectioners 62
Butchers 199
Canteens 66
Chemists 12
Confectioners (sweets only) 106
Fishmongers 99
General Stores 17
Greengrocers and fruiterers 102
Grocers 291
Hotels with catering facilities 22
Hotels without catering facilities 6
Ice cream factories 35
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