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 St. Pancras, Metropolitan Borough]
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Table VI. Report of the Sanitary Work carried out in the year 1885.
No. of Complaints received during the year. | Inspections. | Results of Inspection. | House Drains. | Privies and W.C.'s. | Dust Bins. | Water Supply. | Miscellaneous. | |||||||||||||||||
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No. of Houses, Promises, Ac., inspected. | No. of Re-inspections of Houses. Premises, Ac. | Orders issued for Sanitary Amendments of Houses and Premises. | Houses, Premises, Ac., Cleansed, Repaired, Whitewashed, Ac. | Houses Disinfected after illness of an Infectious Character. | Renewed, Repaired, Cleansed, Trapped, Ac. | Ventilated. | Repaired, Ac. | Supplied with Water. | New provided. | New provided. | Repaired. Covered, Ac. | Cisterns (new) erected. | Cisterns Cleansed, Repaired and Covered. | Cistern Overflow Pipes connected with Drains, Ac., abolished. | No. of Lodging Houses registered under 35th Section of the "Sanitary Act, 1866," or 90th section of " Public Health Act, 1875." | Dust Removal-No. of Communications received and attended to. | Removal of Accumulations of Dung, Stagnant Water, Animal and other Refuse. | Animals Removed, being improperly kept. | Regularly Inspected. | Legal Proceedings, i.e., Summonses. | ||||
Bake-house3. | Licensed Cowsheds. | Licensed Slaughter-houses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Totals | 538 | 8471 | 13264 | 4075 | 1632 | 678 | 1322 | Arequirement hitherto in abeyance, but very desirable | 729 | 863 | 14 | 100 | 447 | 10 | 185 | Water Companies efficiently control these in their own interests. | Bye-Laws not in force in St. Pancras. | Over this the Sanitary Department has no control. | 91 | 16 | 214 | 48 | 38 | 107 |