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East Ham 1920

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for East Ham]

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87
Complaints Received.
Beckton and
North Wool!
wich Ward.
j Central East
Ward.
Central West
Ward.
Manor Park
Ward.
Plashet East
Ward.
Plashet West
Ward.
Total.
January
19
27
51
42
18
14
171
February
7
44
46
49
19
27
192
March
56
40
61
57
27
21
262
April
26
31
42
52
20
26
197
May
54
31
43
46
21
15
210
June
25
32
38
45
29
29
198
July
23
38
39
53
21
23
197
August
24
43
25
52
20
26
190
September
23
41
52
57
40
24
237
October
10
27
38
70
30
26
201
November
30
42
39
70
42
46
269
December
30
41
32
60
39
35
237
Total
327
437
506
653
326
312
2561
Written—1716. Verbal—845.
Complaints.—They referred to the following Nuisances:—
Jan.
Feb.
Mar.
April
May
June
July
Aug.
Sept.
Oct.
Nov
Dec.
Total
Drains Choked
79
66
128
63
100
70
49
93
87
65
66
95
961
Accumulations
11
7
11
3
3
4
1
1
1
4
4
10
60
Water cut off.
1
...
2
...
...
1
...
...
2
...
2
1
9
Offensive smells
4
3
6
6
4
11
3
4
3
4
...
1
49
No dust bins
10
11
12
10
10
14
14
9
16
13
15
10
144
Dilapidations
15
36
30
44
39
21
15
17
40
23
48
21
349
Overcrowding
...
1
3
...
...
1
3
...
1
4
2
...
15
Insanitary
condition.
7
9
8
5
9
15
18
9
5
5
18
1
104
171
Dampness
17
18
9
9
5
2
22
14
21
16
24
14
Others (various)
27
41
53
57
40
59
72
43
61
67
95
84
699
Total
171
172
262
197
210
198
197
190
237
201
269
237
2561
HOUSE TO HOUSE INSPECTION.
Special attention has been devoted to this important branch
of Public Health service. The inspectorial staff have laboured
incessantly to overtake arrears occasioned 'by the war, and during
the year 4,393 primary visits were made, arising from which it
was discovered that at 3,678 houses, being 83 per cent., work of
sanitary amendment, comprising 17,1'52 defects, had to be dealt
with by the service of sanitary notices to render the dwellings in
such a condition which could be considered a reasonable state of