Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
Annual report for the year ending 25th March 1897
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Report of Sanitary Works, &c., in 1896, carried out under the Superintendence of Sanitary Inspectors Bond and Robinson.
Nature of Works. | Sub-Districts. | Total. | ||
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St. George, Bloomsbury. | St. Giles, South. | St. Giles, North. | ||
Number of complaints received during the year | 47 | 56 | 23 | 126 |
Number of houses and premises visited and inspected | 3,970 | 5,217 | 2,258 | 11,445 |
TABLE VI.
Report of Sanitary Works, &c., in 1896, carried out under the Superintendence of Sanitary Inspectors Bond and Robinson.
Nature of Works. | Sub-Districts. | Total. | ||||
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St. George, Bloomsbury. | St. Giles, South. | St. Giles, North. | ||||
Number of compaints received during the year | 47 | 56 | 23 | 126 | ||
Number of houses and premises visited and inspected | 3,970 | 5,217 | 2,258 | 11,445 | ||
Result of Inspections. | Orders issued for sanitary amendments of houses and premises | 323 | 560 | 271 | 1,154 | |
Houses, premises, &c., cleansed repaired, and whitewashed | 154 | 222 | 102 | 478 | ||
Rooms disinfected after infectious diseases | 60 | 117 | 44 | 221 | ||
House Drains. | Repaired, cleansed, &c. | 37 | 49 | 27 | 113 | |
Trapped or ventilated | 38 | 45 | 30 | 113 | ||
New constructed | 32 | 27 | 54 | 113 | ||
W.C.'s. | Repaired, cleansed, &c. | 50 | 147 | 69 | 266 | |
Supplied with water | 1 | — | — | 1 | ||
New constructed | 9 | 14 | 22 | 45 | ||
Dust Bins. | New provided | 6 | 20 | 10 | 36 | |
Repaired and covered | 52 | 71 | 39 | 162 | ||
Water Supply | Cisterns (new) erected | 1 | - | 4 | 5 | |
Cisterns cleansed, repaired and covered | 9 | 48 | 46 | 103 | ||
Miscellaneous. | Number of Lodging-houses registered under Sanitary Act, 1866 | 89 | 201 | 181 | 471 | |
Removal of accumulation of dung, animal and other refuse | 22 | 103 | 79 | 204 | ||
Removal of animals improferly kept | 2 | 2 | — | 4 | ||
Regularly inspected. | Bakehouses | 14 | 5 | 7 | 26 | |
Licensed cow-houses | — | 1 | — | 1 | ||
Licensed slaughter-houses | — | 1 | 1 | 2 | ||
Other proceedings, e.g., legal proceedings | 7 | 5 | 14 | 26 |