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Whitechapel 1886

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Whitechapel]

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T ABLE M.—SANITARY WORK PERFORMED BY THE INSPECTORS.

Sanitary Work performed by the Inspectors.Quarter ending April 3rd.Quarter ending July 3rd.Quarter ending Oct. 2nd.Quarter ending JanuaryTotals for the year 1886.
Numbers of Inspections of Houses as shewn in the Official Returns25132271256621389488
Houses specially visited2242152724761187
Houses specially re visited791967108019044742
Preliminary Notices served, such Notices embracing 902 premises229205223256913
Compulsory Orders issued, embracing 144 premises74978641298
Summonses heard at Police Court under Sanitary Act'127717
,, under Act for the Prevention of Adulteration of Food, &c.21...36
,, ,, Bakehouse Act...1......1
Cellars used as dwellings discontinued for such*484127
Cases of overcrowding and indecent occupation abated13138
Houses in which rooms or passages have been whitewashed92201162131586
Ventilation of houses improved322...7
Rooms disinfedted with sulphurous acid gas, after the occurrence of cases of epidemic diseases therein28426462196
Articles consisting of beds, bedding, clothing, &c., removed from rooms to the stone-yard, and there disinfedted in the apparatus5881185217318625808
Articles burnt by consent3932934522735
Yards of houses paved, or the pavement repaired961318043350
Drains in houses improved87715082290
Dust-bins provided, or improved1311821106276
Closets limewashed, cleansed and repaired177146154185662
Closets provided with a flushing apparatus and water supply152142143164601
Insufficient closet accommodation—an additional closet provided22...15
Defective water fittings to closets repaired217231153
Water supply improved1468432
Nuisances from dung and other offensive matter removed32325528147
Area-gratings, cellar-flaps, &c., repaired576826
Houses closed by Magistrate's order, or by consent, as unfit for human habitation121...4
Visits to cow-houses in the District2019212282
,, slaughter-houses in the District1313131352
,, bakehouses in the District7747748179
Samples under Food and Drugs Act submitted to Analyst41393950169
Cesspools abolished......1...1
Animals, &c., kept so as to constitute a nuisance1......1213
Meat, fish, eggs, &c., unfit for human food, destroyed by order of Magistrate54b'gsonions...Meat 73 stns. Eggs 1 case.......
Trades' nuisances abolished...21...3
Obstructions in the street abated.........33