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 Kensington]
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31
REPORT
OF PROCEEDINGS UNDER THE
NUISANCE REMOVAL AND SANITARY ACTS,
During the Year ending March 25th, 1867,
From Me. Lovett , Sanitary Inspector of the South District; from Mb. Wood , Inspector of the Central District; and from Me. Landman, Inspector of the North District, from May, 1866, till March 25th, 1867.
DISTRICTS:
North | Central. | South. | Total. | |
---|---|---|---|---|
Number of Houses inspected | 1264 | 947 | 1260 | 3471 |
Complaints made | 672 | 612 | 645 | 1929 |
Notices prepared and served | 580 | 530 | 571 | 1681 |
Summonses heard at Police Court | 157 | 57 | 68 | 282 |
Magistrates' orders made | 73 | 23 | 37 | 133 |
Works done under Summons without order | 84 | 34 | 31 | 149 |
Rooms cleansed and whitewashed | 487 | 788 | 566 | 1841 |
Passages and Staircases ditto | 156 | 96 | 165 | 417 |
Drains—New pipes to houses, feet about | 430 | 270 | 340 | 1040 |
„ Repaired | 78 | 24 | 38 | 140 |
„ Cleansed | 51 | 27 | 36 | 114 |
„ Trapped | 62 | 20 | 47 | 129 |
„ New Bell Gratings | 43 | 47 | 142 | 232 |
„ Entered with Sewer | 11 | 20 | 33 | 64 |
Sinks—Trapped | 57 | 21 | 29 | 107 |
Cesspools—Emptied | 5 | 15 | 27 | 47 |
„ Abolished | 3 | 17 | 12 | 32 |
Privies—New Panned | 51 | 23 | 43 | 117 |
„ Trapped | 42 | 18 | 28 | 88 |
„ Cleansed and Repaired | 78 | 47 | 37 | 162 |
„ Dilapidated ones abolished | 3 | 7 | 13 | 23 |
„ New erected | 7 | 10 | 10 | 27 |
„ Supplied with water | 178 | 294 | 293 | 765 |
Houses supplied with water | 8 | 13 | 7 | 28 |
New covers to Cisterns and Butts | 19 | 15 | 13 | 47 |
New Receptacles for water provided | 27 | 13 | 25 | 65 |
Ventilation of houses improved | 9 | 11 | 11 | 31 |
Yards repaved and repaired | 12 | 23 | 31 | 66 |
Stables and outhouses cleansed and whitewashed | 39 | 16 | 17 | 72 |
Cows removed | ... | 23 | 25 | 48 |
Cow Sheds abolished | • • • | 4 | 5 | 9 |
Pigs removed | 52 | 47 | 17 | 116 |
Styes abolished | 13 | 9 | 5 | 27 |
New Dustbins erected | 10 | 22 | 23 | 55 |
New Dung Pits ditto | 6 | 17 | 4 | 27 |
Offensive accumulations of manure removed | 47 | 38 | 53 | 138 |