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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REPORT
OF PROCEEDINGS UNDER
THE NUISANCES REMOVAL ACT,
From. 25th March, 1867, to 25th March, 1868.
DISTRICTS:
North. | Central. | South. | Total. | |
---|---|---|---|---|
Number of Houses inspected | 1319 | 893 | 1112 | 3324 |
Complaints made | 592 | 564 | 551 | 1707 |
Notices prepared and served | 549 | 477 | 437 | 1463 |
Summonses heard at Police Court | 81 | 43 | 35 | 159 |
Magistrates' Orders made | 39 | 14 | 21 | 74 |
Works done under Summons without order | 42 | 25 | 64 | 121 |
Rooms cleansed and whitewashed | 524 | 476 | 672 | 1672 |
Passages and staircases ditto | 178 | 70 | 506 | 754 |
Drains—New pipes to houses, feet about | 380 | 200 | 423 | 1003 |
„ Repaired | 87 | 38 | 76 | 201 |
„ Cleansed | 43 | 27 | 39 | 109 |
„ Trapped | 70 | 26 | 45 | 141 |
„ New bell Gratings | 97 | 30 | 73 | 200 |
„ Entered with Sewer | 24 | 7 | 31 | 62 |
Sinks—Trapped | 36 | 29 | 24 | 89 |
Cesspools—Emptied | 11 | 6 | 36 | 53 |
„ Abolished | 7 | 3 | 34 | 44 |
Privies—New panned | 41 | 11 | 29 | 81 |
„ Trapped | 35 | 29 | 38 | 102 |
„ Cleansed and Repaired | 60 | 36 | 48 | 144 |
„ Dilapidated ones abolished | 8 | 4 | 7 | 19 |
„ New erected | 14 | 7 | 10 | 31 |
„ Supplied with water | 147 | 136 | 111 | 394 |
Houses supplied with water | 13 | 9 | 10 | 32 |
New covers to Cisterns and Butts | 28 | 17 | 22 | 67 |
New Receptacles for water provided | 33 | 8 | 28 | 69 |
Ventilation of houses improved | 13 | 6 | 9 | 28 |
Yards re-paved and repaired | 18 | 19 | 16 | 53 |
Stables and outhouses cleansed and whitewashed | 20 | 23 | 36 | 79 |
Cows removed | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Cow sheds abolished | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Pigs removed | 45 | 39 | 32 | 106 |
Styes abolished | 19 | 5 | 12 | 36 |
New Dustbins erected | 11 | 17 | 21 | 49 |
New Dungpits erected | 51 | 11 | 23 | 85 |
Offensive accumulations of dung removed | 24 | 64 | 72 | 160 |