London's Pulse: Medical Officer of Health reports 1848-1972

View report page

Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London

Merton and Morden 1940

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Merton & Morden]

This page requires JavaScript

Text

Copy text to clipboard

authority. The number of premises found to be rat infested
in 1940 was 92 and a total of 573 inspections were made.
During 1941 the number of premises found to be rat infested
was 63, and a total of 593 inspections were made. In 1942, the
number of premises was 72 and the inspections made 553.

Table: Shops Acts,1912-1936. The following statement summarises the inspections made, the infringements discovered and other matters dealt with during the years 1940/41/42:—

Shops Acts,1912-1936. The following statement summarises the inspections made, the infringements discovered and other matters dealt with during the years 1940/41/42:—

194019411942
No. of Inspections:—Day visits693211280
Evening visits142—
(1) Evening closing hours3——
(2) Half-day closing421
(3) Hours of employment for "young persons"74-
(4) Seats not provided for females———
(5) Prescribed notices not correst or or exhibited905152
(6) Sanitary arrangements unsatisfactory---
(7) Reasonable temperature not maintained2611—
Summary of Sanitary Inspections, 1941/1942:—19411942
Housing—Primary visits418407
Re-inspections—work in progress1,0011,201
Re-Overcrowding4083
Miscellaneous, housing-164196
Drainage work916988
Factories278418
Stables and Piggeries11061
Rats and Mice Destruction592553
Enquiries, infectious diseases158—
„ contacts, infectious diseases7572
Visits to schools75
Re-disinfections237—
Smoke abatement2612
Food Shops, etc.1,083924
Milk Supply104109
Rivers and Streams, pollutions87138
Complaints, investigated395422
Miscellaneous9541,015

Text

Copy text to clipboard

I am, Ladies and Gentlemen,
Your obedient Servant,
J. B. POINTON,
10th March, 1943. Chief Sanitary Inspector.
54