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 Hackney]
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they are suitable for use in residential premises and are of such a type that,
without a guard, there is a likelihood of injury by burning. The standards
of construction and fitting for guards, and the tests to be employed in
ascertaining whether guards comply with those standards, are set out in the
Schedule to the Regulations. Regulation 4 exempts from the Regulations sales
for scrap, and under Regulation 5, heating appliances, other than imported
appliances, manufactured before the date of the coming into operation of the
Regulations and not fitted with the requisite guard may be sold or let until
the end of September, 1954.
Summary of the work of sanitary inspection other than of food premises;-Inspections of Dwelling Houses: -
Builders' Notices | 750 |
Complaints | 5,028 |
Flooding | 401 |
Housing Acts, 1936-1949 | 757 |
Housing Applications | 352 |
Infectious Disease | 338 |
New Buildings (Water Certificates) | 333 |
Rent Restrictions Acts | 16 |
Vermin | 391 |
Other Inspections:- | |
Appointments, interviews and special visits | 4,920 |
Common Lodging House | 4 |
Factories Act, 1937 - Factories | 559 |
Outworkers'premises | 1,736 |
Offensive Trades | 12 |
Pet Animals Act, 1951 | 36 |
Prevention of Damage by Pests Act, 1949 | 659 |
Rag and Bone Shops and Stores | 24 |
Shops Act, 1950 | 975 |
Smoke Nuisances - observations | 1,500 |
Static Water Tanks | 92 |
Urinals | 191 |
Vacant Sites | 140 |
Waterways | 51 |
Premises in which defects were found | 5,481 |
Re-inspections (all forms of inspection) | 41,838 |
Notices Served: - | |
Examination of Drains | 231 |
Factories Act, 1937 | 92 |
Infringements of By-laws | 554 |
Intimation Notices | 4, 127 |
Prevention of Damage by Pests Act, 1949 | 2 |
Repair of Drains | 106 |
Shops Act, 1950 | 3 |
Smoke Nuisances Intimation Notices | 15 |
Statutory Notices | Nil |
Statutory Notices | 1, 946 |
Premises in which defects were remedied | 5,907 |
Drainage Work - | |
Drains and Sanitary Fittings tested and examined | 5,641 |
Drains relaid | 279 |
Drains repaired | 725 |
National Assistance Acts, 1948 to 1951 - Visits to Aged Persons | 324 |
Attendance at Court | 232 |