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 Camberwell]
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immediately followed by a notice sent by the Inspector to the
Dust-Contractor, and a record of them is preserved in the counterfoils
of the notice books.
The details of house to house inspections are given by the
Inspectors on form B, as also are the details of inspections of
houses in which small-pox and such like diseases have proved
fatal, or in relation to which some special complaint has been
made. Upon the same forms also are placed the facts of all those
sanitary complaints which have not been summarily disposed
of.
Upon form C are written by the Medical Officer his recommendations
upon the various sanitary matters recorded on
form B. Corresponding series of forms B and C relating to the
inspections made in the interval between two consecutive
meetings of the Vestry, are placed before the latter of these
meetings as a part of the Medical Officer's Report, and as a rule
are referred by the Vestry to the Sewers' and Sanitary Committee
to be dealt with.
At the ensuing meeting of the Sewers' and Sanitary Committee
the Inspectors' reports and the recommendations of the Medical
Officer are considered; and the latter, either wholly or partially
or in a modified form, are then directed to be carried out.
Thereupon notices are made out in accordance with the directions
of the Committee, and served on the owners or occupiers of the
property upon which sanitary defects calling for remedy have
been discovered. Moreover the effect of all these notices and
the matters to which they severally relate are entered in detail in
a book (form D) ; and in this book, which is brought periodically
before the Sewers and Sanitary Committee, all subsequent
proceedings, and the final result of each case, are systematically
recorded.