London's Pulse: Medical Officer of Health reports 1848-1972
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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
Merton 1971
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Merton]
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| Housing | |
| Housing Act (Dwelling houses) | 4,532 |
| Overcrowding | 22 |
| Permitted number measurements | 125 |
| Rent Act | 17 |
| Underground rooms | 37 |
| Houses in multiple occupation | 161 |
| Improvement grants | 1,353 |
| Caravans | 354 |
| 6,601 | |
| Food and Food Premises. | |
| Milk processing dairies | 114 |
| Milk vendors | 129 |
| Ice cream premises | 281 |
| Food factories | 27 |
| Food vehicles | 584 |
| School kitchens | 74 |
| Restaurant kitchens | 904 |
| Licensed premises | 261 |
| Bakehouses | 86 |
| Butchers | 240 |
| Wet and fried fish shops | 117 |
| Other food shops | 1,069 |
| Meat inspection | 56 |
| Unsound food | 478 |
| Sampling: Food and drugs | 129 |
| Sampling: Milk | 290 |
| Sampling: Ice cream | 74 |
| Sampling: Water | 53 |
| Food hygiene swabs | 1 |
| 4,967 | |
| Clean Air Act, 1956/1968. | |
| Smoke Control areas | 11,166 |
| Other Clean Air Act visits | 611 |
| Smoke observations | 706 |
| Air pollution recording apparatus | 402 |
| 12,885 | |
| Factories Act, 1961. | |
| Factories (powered) | 185 |
| Factories (non-powered) | 12 |
| Factories (building sites) | 35 |
| Outworkers | 59 |
| Work places | 14 |
| 305 | |
| Infectious Diseases. | |
| I.D. enquiries | 1,329 |
| I.D. contacts | 45 |
| Food poisoning | 13 |
| Specimens | 239 |
| Disinfection | 22 |
| Long stay immigrants | 246 |
| 1,894 | |