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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The total number of infectious cases removed to
hospital was 696 against 725 in 1893. These included 9
cases of small-pox, 411 of scarlet fever, 248 of diphtheria,
and 28 of fever.
Table XV. gives a list of the number of houses or
rooms disinfected by the vestry officials, and of the number
of articles disinfected in the parish disinfector or destroyed.
Without going into details 1,530 rooms or houses were
disinfected and 1,960 lots of bedding and other articles.
No compensation for articles damaged or destroyed was
allowed. It is gratifying to know that all this work has
been done systematically and satisfactorily by your disinfecting
staff.
TABLE XIII.—Continued.
TABLE C. Description of Work. | Inspectors. | Total. | |||||||||||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Stevenson. | Groom. | Pointon. | Dewey. | Eagle. | Chadderton. | Shapley. | Scudamore | Collins. | Heath. | Kerslake. | Morley. | Homer. | Farmer. | ||
Houses ventilated under Floors | 552 | 184 | 352 | 437 | 237 | 97 | 151 | 49 | 71 | 390 | 362 | 175 | 412 | 160 | 3629 |
„ Cleansed | 101 | 243 | 110 | 161 | 166 | 94 | 92 | 8 | 9 | 167 | 261 | 245 | 264 | 525 | 2446 |
„ Repaired | 239 | 223 | 257 | 302 | 120 | 123 | 148 | 10 | 15 | 166 | 211 | 113 | 96 | 67 | 2090 |
Water Supplied to Premises | 50 | 4 | 128 | 269 | 4 | 55 | 121 | 93 | 27 | 295 | 114 | 101 | 111 | 15 | 1387 |
Drains Cleansed, Repaired and Trapped | 556 | 479 | 387 | 354 | 251 | 442 | 260 | 382 | 120 | 443 | 200 | 23 | 377 | 195 | 4469 |
Sinks, Rain-water Pipes, &c., Disconnected | 157 | 389 | 410 | 489 | 272 | 409 | 376 | 317 | 300 | 203 | 262 | 137 | 290 | 306 | 4317 |
Stables, Yards and Areas Paved, Levelled, and Drained moved | 211 | 309 | 295 | 334 | 371 | 376 | 288 | 264 | 124 | 326 | 391 | 227 | 476 | 120 | 4112 |
Closets Provided, Repaired Cleansed or Re- | 595 | 380 | 369 | 374 | 298 | 485 | 193 | 328 | 151 | 399 | 339 | 170 | 370 | 409 | 4860 |
Water laid on to Closets | 580 | 197 | 243 | 369 | 180 | 487 | 209 | 89 | 173 | 185 | 231 | 122 | 269 | 168 | 3502 |
Cisterns Provided or Re-constructed | 215 | 39 | 97 | 108 | 18 | 39 | 10 | 7 | 27 | 13 | 19 | 11 | 107 | 56 | 766 |
Cisterns Repaired, Covered or Cleansed | 79 | 136 | 117 | 133 | 120 | 19 | 83 | 3 | 45 | 42 | 61 | 17 | 71 | 38 | 964 |
Provide, Repair, or Remove Dust Bin | 215 | 267 | 298 | 416 | 349 | 284 | 207 | 136 | 65 | 327 | 296 | 239 | 392 | 216 | 3707 |
Cesspools Emptied, Abolished, or Drained into Sewer | 0 | 15 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 0 | 2 | 5 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 57 | 0 | 93 |
Remove Refuse or Manure | 22 | 109 | 26 | 25 | 146 | 325 | 293 | 42 | 15 | 187 | 53 | 29 | 219 | 10 | 1501 |
Keep Animals Clean or Remove them | 12 | 23 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 13 | 6 | 5 | 5 | 0 | 4 | 1 | 75 |
Cleanse & Supply Water to Private Urinals | 0 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 34 | 8 | 17 | 8 | 22 | 0 | 22 | 0 | 120 |
„ „ Public „ | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 5 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 12 |
Abate Overcrowding | 1 | 13 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 10 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 7 | 6 | 0 | 49 |
Abate Smoke Nuisances and raise Chimneys | 0 | 6 | 0 | 22 | 4 | 0 | 16 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 7 | 21 | 31 | 112 |
Trade Nuisances Abated | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 |
Road Gullies Abated | 0 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 0 | 22 |
Supply Manure Pits | 5 | 15 | 11 | 10 | 18 | 26 | 23 | 8 | 10 | 5 | 19 | 0 | 13 | 0 | 163 |
Drains exposed for examination | 18 | 70 | 75 | 131 | 45 | 53 | 28 | 295 | 27 | 75 | 33 | 14 | 120 | 41 | 1025 |
Interceptors and Chambers supplied | 262 | 128 | 98 | 166 | 147 | 58 | 35 | 130 | 88 | 178 | 38 | 4 | 160 | 12 | 1504 |
TABLE D.—SALE OF FOOD AND DRUGS ACT. | |||||||||||||||
Samples submitted for Analysis | 16 | 16 | 16 | 13 | 15 | 19 | 5 | 15 | 12 | 8 | 16 | 2 | 15 | 3 | 171 |
Summonses under the above Act | 1 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 1 | 5 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 22 |
Inquests 226 Dead Bodies removed to Mortuary 246 Post Mortem Examinations 123 |