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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 Pancras 1914
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for St. Pancras, London, Borough of]
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Table No. 8.
| DUTIES AND PREMISES. | n. 1. Highgate. | N. 2. 1 St. Tohn's Park.. | N. 3. GosDel Oak. 1 | N. 4. Gralton. | N. . Maitland Park. | E. 1. Bartholomew. | E. 2. Camden Square. | E. 3. College. | E. 4. Oakley Square. | E. 5. Ossulston. | W. 1. Castle. | w.2. Chalk Farm. | w. 3. Mornington. | w. 4. Regent's Hark. | w, 5. Euston. | S. r. Argyle. | s. 2. Mecklenburgh. | s. 3. Burton. | s. 4. Endsleigh. | s. 5. Whitfield. | factories and Workshops. Whole Borough. | Whole Prough Women. | Totals. | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| M.E.B. | u.s. and Visitors | Miss Giles. | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Infectious Diseases-Inquiry, removal, disinfection, etc. | 69 | 92 | 13 | 132 | 210 | 101 | 9??? | 168 | 127 | 11 | 134 | 132 | 99 | 148 | 127 | 135 | 83 | 82 | 71 | 74 | - | - | - | - | 2320 |
| Subsequent sanitary inspection, etc. | 60 | 81 | 112 | 110 | 89 | 53 | 37 | 77 | 95 | 89 | 136 | 91 | 55 | 63 | 87 | 82 | 38 | 47 | 29 | 53 | - | - | - | - | 1484 |
| Complaints | 74 | 53 | 133 | 123 | 120 | 47 | 70 | 133 | 97 | 135 | 130 | 123 | 126 | 185 | 113 | 159 | 115 | 116 | 82 | 157 | - | - | - | - | 2291 |
| Drainage-Under notice. Plans, supervision, etc. | 7 | 19 | 55 | 65 | 43 | 73 | 55 | 51 | 3 | 4 | 21 | 11 | 18 | 23 | 14 | 6 | 1 | 2 | 115 | 19 | 1 | - | - | - | 606 |
| Voluntary | 27 | 23 | 41 | 37 | 34 | 15 | 20 | 14 | 15 | 48 | 38 | 27 | 27 | 63 | 36 | 42 | 9i | 29 | 165 | 49 | 2 | - | - | - | 843 |
| New Buildings | 7 | 3 | - | 1 | - | 1 | - | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | - | - | - | 3 | 8 | 6 | 1 | 33 | - | - | - | - | - | 68 |
| Yards of Mews and Stables | 297 | 214 | 237 | 128 | 272 | 9 | 16 | - | 26 | 341 | 145 | 232 | 185 | 389 | 305 | 98 | 310 | 338 | 389 | 498 | - | - | - | - | 4429 |
| House-to-House Inspections - Housing, Town Planning, etc., Act, 1909: 17(1). First Inspections | 86 | 8 | 31 | 67 | 32 | - | 5 | - | 160 | 202 | 106 | 32 | 1 | 58 | 228 | 75 | 40 | 38 | 230 | 183 | - | - | - | - | 1582 |
| Subsequent routine Inspections | 206 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 5 | - | - | - | 2 | 53 | 20 | 2 80 | 30 | 193 | - | - | - | - | 789 |
| Inspections of registered tenement houses other than above | 6 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 5 | - | - | - | 2 | - | 12 | 10 | 10 | - | - | - | - | 45 | |
| Other house-to-house Inspections | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | - | 7 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 8 |
| Visits to closed underground rooms | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | '4 | 2 | 1 | - | 1 | - | - | - | 17 | 41 | 109 | - | - | - | - | 285 |
| Smoke Shafts observed | - | 3 | 5 | 1 | - | - | 1 | 1 | - | 33 | 2 | 3 | - | - | 170 | - | - | 64 | 49 | - | - | - | - | - | 332 |
| Factories | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 9 | - | 27 | - | - | - | 36 |
| Workshops | - | - | - | - | -_ | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 4 | 6 | - | - | 17 | 4 | 2 | 87 | - | - | - | 120 |
| Workplaces | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Bakehouses | 5 | 8 | 13 | 8 | 5 | - | - | 1 | - | 8 | 10 | 8 | 5 | 9 | 5 | 4 | 4 | 6 | 9 | 18 | 193 | - | - | - | 319 |
| Restaurant Kitchens | - | - | - | - | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | - | - | 2 | 18 | 96 | 5 | - | - | - | 123 |
| Regulated Trades. Offensive Trades | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 2 | - | - | - | - | 2 |
| Rag and Bone dealers | - | - | - | 3 | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | - | - | 3 | 8 | - | - | - | - | - | 16 |
| Fried fish vendors | - | - | 1 | 4 | 7 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | 13 | 8 | - | - | - | - | 34 |
| Fish Curers | - | - | - | - | 2 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 2 |
| Other effluvia businesses | - | - | - | - | - | - | 6 | - | - | - | - | 2 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 8 |
| Inspections of Market Streets | 10 | 6 | 8 | 5 | 2 | 20 | 19 | 36 | - | - | 3 | 4 | 10 | 1 | 6 | 8 | 24 | 8 | 9 | 27 | - | - | - | - | 206 |
| Other Duties | 3 | - | - | 9 | 6 | 4 | 2 | 4 | 38 | 102 | - | 6 | 3 | 7 | 14 | 14 | 31 | 67 | 5 | 4 | - | 649 | 1825 | 1346 | 4139 |
| Totals | 857 | 10 | 69 | 693 | 814 | 323 | 327 | 486 | 562 | 1094 | 739 | 673 | 529 | 958 | 1120 | 684 | 763 | 1230 | 1319 | 1502 | *315 | 649 | 1825 | 1346 | 20087 |
* These figures are in respect of the fourth quarter of 1914 only.