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 Surbiton]
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VISITS MADE BY INSPECTORS.
(Cont.)
Included in the aforementioned are the following classified
visits:-
To food premises and vehicles 689
" cowsheds 2
" dairies and milkshops 40
" milk vehicles 37
" ice-cream premises and vehicles 202
" bakehouses 19
" factories 249
" workplaces 32
" outworkers premises 7
" schools 68
" caravans and caravan sites 183
" council houses and applicants 90
Re. cases of infectious disease
(including dysentery, tuberculosis
and food poisoning) 1285
Re. overcrowding 6
" Shops Act 70
" Pet Animals Act 11
" Clean Air Act 95
" Improvement Grants 288
" aged people 85
Visits re noise nuisances 52
Visits to Houses in Multiple occupation 97
Interviews with owners, tradesmen etc 152
Samples of swimming bath water taken 30
Samples of drinking water taken 66
TESTING OF DRAINS AND SANITARY FITTINGS.
Drains tested with water 47
Drains tested by other methods 6
Drains examined under section 48,)
Public Health Act, 1936.) 1
NOTIONS SERVED, LICENCES AND CERTIFICATES ISSUED.
Informal and verbal notices 409
Statutory notices under Section 277, Public
Health Act, 1936, requiring information as
to ownership of premises 8
Licence to station and use moveable dwelling
(section 269, Public Health Act, 1936) 1
Site Licence under Section 3, Caravan Sites and
Control of Development Act, 1960 2
Statutory notices under Rent Act, 1957 - Notice
by Local Authority to landlord of proposal to
issue a certificate of disrepair (Form J) 5
Statutory notices under Rent Act, 1957 - Certificate
as to the remedying of defects specified in a
Landlord's Undertaking to remedy defects (Form P) 3
Licences under The Pet Animals Act, 1951 4
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