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 Wimbledon]
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Borough of Mimblebon.
SANITARY DEPARTMENT.
Annual Report
OF THE
Sanitary Inspector
FOR THE
Year ended 31st December, 1907.
To the Mayor, Aldermen, and Councillors
of the Borough of Wimbledon,
Gentlemen,
I beg to submit my Report for the year ended 31st
December, 1907, on the work carried out bv the Sanitary
Department in connection with the abatement and suppression
of nuisances and other matters under the Public
Health Acts, The Factory and Workshops Acts, The Sale of
Food and Drugs Acts and also in connection with the
enforcement of the various Bye-laws made by the Local
Authority, including house-to-house inspection, supervision
and testing of drainage work, the inspection of Workshops,
Bakehouses, Restaurants, Slaughterhouses, Butchers and
Fishmongers Shops and Dairies, Cowsheds and Milkshops.
Notices Served. - For the abatement of nuisances under
the Public Health Acts and the remedying of contraventions
of the Bye-laws and other Statutes, which come under the
duties of an Inspector, one thousand and fifteen notices were
served. Of this number only one hundred and ninety three
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