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Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
St George (Southwark) 1857
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Southwark, The Vestry of the Parish of St. George the Martyr]
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TABLE 7.—
| Cases | Number of Houses or Places visited | Number of Visits of Medical Officer and Inspector | Premises unclean, or dilapidated within | Overcrowded | Unfit for habitation | Insufficient Ventilation | Water | Water receptacle, none, bad, or without cover | Bad Drainage | Foul Cesspool | Water Closet defective, or without Water | Insufficient Privy accommodation | Yard badly paved | Cellar badly paved | Refuse accumulated | Dustbin, none or imperfect | Nuisances from animals badly kept | Slaughter-houses, Manufactories in unwholesome condition | Burial Vaults requiring improvement | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Deficient | No supply | ||||||||||||||||||||
| 119 | 227 | about 900 | 38 | . | 1 | 2 | 32 | . | 25 | 135 | 114 | 30 | 5 | 46 | 3 | Not regularly recorded. I'robably one in three of all cases visited. | 75 | 3 | 4 | 3 | |
| Work completed................ | 79 | 137 | . | 20 | . | 1 | 2 | 31 | . | 10 | G6 | 39 | 27 | # | 17 | 3 | 30 | 1 | |||
| Not begun, or left unfinished. | 40 | 90 | • | 18 | • | • | • | 1 | • | 15 | 09 | 75 | 3 | 5 | 29 | • | 45 | 2 | 4 | 3 | |
| Date | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| The following are old cases reported last year:- | |||||||||
| Mr. Able, Bone-boiler, Green-street—Mr. Ray, Bone-boiler, Green-street. | 24, Mint-street | F.N. | 21 | 8 | |||||
| O.N. | 27 | 10 | 57 | ||||||
| The following are from the fourth quarterly report:— | 3 and 4, Staple-street | F.N. | |||||||
| 6 to 11, Spiller's-court—34, King-street, Borough-road. | 21 | 8 | 57 | ||||||
| 0 | |||||||||
| The following are from the fifth quarterly report:— King's Arms, Old Kent-road—4, Union-street, Borough-road—75, Kent-street, (Dairy). | 10, William-street, Suffolk-street | ||||||||
| 9 | 1 1 | ||||||||
| The following are from the sixth quarterly report:— | Bone-boiler, 25, Green-street | ^ F.N. | 26 | 8 | 57 | ||||
| 1 O.N. | 9 | 1 1 | 57 | ||||||
| Coroline-crescent. - 1 to 7, Parliament-street-46, Market street, -17to 26, Butcher-row, Market-street:- | |||||||||
| 30, Green-street.—1 to 9, Castle Yard; Northampton-row, Old Kent-road. | 15, London-street | 5 F.N. | 27 | 8 | 57 | ||||
| The following are cases taken in hand during this (the seventh) quarter, and not reported as finished at the end of the quarter:— | 57 | ||||||||
| Date | 5 to 7, Nelson-place | F.N. | 28 | 8 | 57 | ||||
| 1 to 13, East-place, West-square | F..N. 29 | 6 | 57 | O.N | 15 | 9 | 57 | ||
| 1 to 5, Chapel-court, Hight-street | F.N. 29 | 57 | 10 to 19, Union-street, Borough-road | F. N | 28 | 8 | 57 | ||
| O.N. | 29 | 10 | 57 | ||||||
| 24, Valentine-place | F.N. 10 | 57 | |||||||
| O.N. 24 | 10 | 57 | 6, London-street | F.N. | 11 | 9 | 57 | ||
| 29, Bond-street, Borough-road | F.N. 10 | 7 | 57 | O.N. | 22 | 9 | 57 | ||
| O.N. 22 | 9 | 57 | 2, surrey-square | F.N. | 4 | 9 | 57 | ||
| do summons | 7 | 10 | 57 | O.N. | 22 | 9 | 57 | ||
| F.N. | 6 | 9 | 57 | ||||||
| F.N. 10 | 7 | 57 | 1, Northampton-street | O.N. | 11 | 57 | |||
| 34 and 35, Pitt-street,l St. George's-road | O.N. 4 | 9 | 57 | F.N. | 6 | 9 | 57 | ||
| 2, 3, 4, 5, and 6, York-street | F.N. 16 | 7 | 57 | 33 to 37, Surrey-place, Old Kent-road | O.N | 9 | 9 11 | 57 | |
| O.N. 4 | 9 | 57 | O.N. | 27 | 11 | 57 | |||
| Cow shed, Noel-street | F.N. 11 | 7 | 57 | F.N. | 15 | 9 | 57 | ||
| O.N. 27 | 10 | 57 | 1, Nelson-yard | O.N. | 9 | 11 | 57 | ||
| 9 to 14, York-street | 5 F.N. 1G | 7 | 57 | 13 and 14, William-street | F.N. | 15 | 9 | 57 | |
| I O.N. 4 | 9 | 57 | |||||||
| 37, Bridge house-place | F.N. 17 | 7 | 57 | 158, High-street | F.N. | 25 | 0 | 57 | |
| O.N | 9 | 1 1 | 57 | ||||||
| 18, Upper Green-street | F.N. 28 | 7 | 57 | F.N | 26 | 9 | 57 | ||
| O.N. 7 | y | 57 | 117, Kent-street | O.N. | 9 | 11 | 57 | ||
| 1 to 6, Elizabeth's-place | F.N. 6 | 8 | 57 | 9 to 13, Frederick-place, old Kent-road | F.N. | 9 | 11 | 57 | |
| O.N. 17 | 9 | 57 | |||||||
| Atlas Work, Borough-road | F.N. 8 | 8 | 57 | 14 to 19, Potier-street | F.N. | 28 | 9 | 57 | |
| O.N. 22 | 9 | 57 | O.N. | 26 | 10 | 57 | |||
| 33, Market-street | F.N. 22 | 8 | 57 | 1 to 4 | Hunter-place | F.N. | 28 | 9 | 57 |
| O.N. 7 | 9 | 57 | 5 to 7 | O.N. | 27 | 10 | 57 | ||
| 13, Potier-street | F.N. | 28 | 9 | 57 | |||||