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 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 January | Totals for the year 1886. |
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Numbers of Inspections of Houses as shewn in the Official Returns | 2513 | 2271 | 2566 | 2138 | 9488 |
Houses specially visited | 224 | 215 | 272 | 476 | 1187 |
Houses specially re visited | 791 | 967 | 1080 | 1904 | 4742 |
Preliminary Notices served, such Notices embracing 902 premises | 229 | 205 | 223 | 256 | 913 |
Compulsory Orders issued, embracing 144 premises | 74 | 97 | 86 | 41 | 298 |
Summonses heard at Police Court under Sanitary Act' | 1 | 2 | 7 | 7 | 17 |
,, under Act for the Prevention of Adulteration of Food, &c. | 2 | 1 | ... | 3 | 6 |
,, ,, Bakehouse Act | ... | 1 | ... | ... | 1 |
Cellars used as dwellings discontinued for such | *4 | 8 | 4 | 1 | 27 |
Cases of overcrowding and indecent occupation abated | 1 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 8 |
Houses in which rooms or passages have been whitewashed | 92 | 201 | 162 | 131 | 586 |
Ventilation of houses improved | 3 | 2 | 2 | ... | 7 |
Rooms disinfedted with sulphurous acid gas, after the occurrence of cases of epidemic diseases therein | 28 | 42 | 64 | 62 | 196 |
Articles consisting of beds, bedding, clothing, &c., removed from rooms to the stone-yard, and there disinfedted in the apparatus | 588 | 1185 | 2173 | 1862 | 5808 |
Articles burnt by consent | 39 | 329 | 345 | 22 | 735 |
Yards of houses paved, or the pavement repaired | 96 | 131 | 80 | 43 | 350 |
Drains in houses improved | 87 | 71 | 50 | 82 | 290 |
Dust-bins provided, or improved | 131 | 18 | 21 | 106 | 276 |
Closets limewashed, cleansed and repaired | 177 | 146 | 154 | 185 | 662 |
Closets provided with a flushing apparatus and water supply | 152 | 142 | 143 | 164 | 601 |
Insufficient closet accommodation—an additional closet provided | 2 | 2 | ... | 1 | 5 |
Defective water fittings to closets repaired | 2 | 17 | 23 | 11 | 53 |
Water supply improved | 14 | 6 | 8 | 4 | 32 |
Nuisances from dung and other offensive matter removed | 32 | 32 | 55 | 28 | 147 |
Area-gratings, cellar-flaps, &c., repaired | 5 | 7 | 6 | 8 | 26 |
Houses closed by Magistrate's order, or by consent, as unfit for human habitation | 1 | 2 | 1 | ... | |
Visits to cow-houses in the District | 20 | 19 | 21 | 22 | 82 |
,, slaughter-houses in the District | 13 | 13 | 13 | 13 | 52 |
,, bakehouses in the District | 77 | 47 | 7 | 48 | 179 |
Samples under Food and Drugs Act submitted to Analyst | 41 | 39 | 39 | 50 | 169 |
Cesspools abolished | ... | ... | 1 | ... | 1 |
Animals, &c., kept so as to constitute a nuisance | 1 | ... | ... | 12 | 13 |
Meat, fish, eggs, &c., unfit for human food, destroyed by order of Magistrate | 54b'gsonions | ... | Meat 73 stns. Eggs 1 case. | ... | ... |
Trades' nuisances abolished | ... | 2 | 1 | ... | 3 |
Obstructions in the street abated | ... | ... | 3 | 3 |