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 Southwark, The Vestry of the Parish of St. George the Martyr]
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Supplement and Tables to complete Annual Report, 1857.
TABLE 5.—
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 | Refuse accumulated in excess | Dustbin, none or imperfect | Nuisances from animals badly kept | Slaughter-houses, Manufactories in unwholesome state | Burial Vaults requiring improvement | ||
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Deficient | No supply | |||||||||||||||||||
544 | 890 | The average is three at least to each place. | 161 | 11 | 39 | 30 | 37 | 8 | 149 | 462 | 373 | 156 | 5 | 204 | In every third house visited, on the average. | 314 | 20 | 16 | 2 | |
Work completed. | 473 | 756 | 130 | 9 | 23 | 30 | 37 | 8 | 113 | 407 | 327 | 133 | . | 167 | 250 | 20 | 12 | 1 | ||
Not begun, or left unfinished | 71 | 134 | 31 | 2 | 16 | . | . | . | 36 | 55 | 46 | 23 | 5 | 37 | 64 | 4 | 1 |