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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
Barking 1898
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Barking]
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Summary of Work done through the Sanitary Inspector in the
Urban Sanitary District of Barking,
During the year ending December 31st, 1898.
| Total Number for Year. | Results of Inspection, &c. | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| 1. | Complaints received | 160 | |
| 2. | Nuisances detected | 1,146 | |
| 3. | Nuisances abated | 954 | |
| 4. | Notices served | 1,146 | |
| 5. | Summonses taken out | 1 | |
| 6. | Convictions | 1 | |
| 7. | Cottages inspected. | 1,072 | |
| 8. | Lodging-houses inspected .. | 1 | |
| 9. | Slaughter-houses inspected .. | 4 | |
| 10. | Bakehouses inspected | 18 | |
| 11. | Dairies and Milk Shops inspected | 38 | |
| 12. | Cowsheds inspected | 5 | |
| 13. | Workshops inspected | ||
| 14. | Filthy houses cleansed, sec. 46 Public Health Act, 1875 | 38 | |
| 15. | Houses disinfected | 203 | |
| 16. | Overcrowding abated | 9 | |
| 17. | Houses placed in habitable repair | ||
| 18. | Houses closed | 4 | |
| 19. | Houses erected or re-built, for which "Certificates" were applied | ||
| 20. | " Certificates " granted | ||
| 21. | „ deferred | ||
| 22. | Wells sunk or improved supplies of water afforded | 4 | |
| 23. | Wells cleansed or repaired | ||
| 24. | Wells closed | ||
| 25. | Houses connected with sewers | 125 | |
| 26. | „ „ with water mains | 152 | |
| 27. | Earth, pail, or improved Privies constructed or existing Privies altered | ||
| 28. | Privies and W.C.'s repaired; W.C.'s supplied with water | 649 |