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Whitechapel 1890

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Whitechapel]

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Table: Table P.—SANITARY AND OTHER WORK PERFORMED BY THE INSPECTORS.

Table P.—SANITARY AND OTHER WORK PERFORMED BY THE INSPECTORS.

Classification of Work.Quarter ending Mar. 29th.Quarter ending June 28th.Quarter ending Sept. 27th.Quarter ending Dec. 27th.Totals for the year.
Numbers of Inspections of Houses as shewn in the Official Returns418937843033218813794
Houses specially visited8918164579153079
Preliminary Notices served, such Notices embracing 2252 premises2613544004341449
Compulsory Orders issued, embracing 623 premises88895771305
Summonses heard at Police Court under Sanitary Act232...7
„ „ „ Adulteration of Food and Drugs Acts...1......1
„ „ „ Bakehouses Act...............
Cellars used as dwellings, caused to be discontinued to be so used837422
Cases of overcrowding and indecent occupation abated144413
Houses in which walls and ceilings have been cleansed or repaired149233257159798
Roofs of houses repaired17306861
Ventilation of houses improved1161...18
Houses in which floorings or rooms, staircase risers or treads, window sashes and frames, baluster rails, or fire stoves have been repaired29444713133
Eaves, gutters and stackpipes provided or repaired269111258
Nuisances from smoke abated3314...20
Rooms disinfected with sulphurous acid gas, after the occurrence of cases of infectious diseases5480181184499
Articles consisting of beds, bedding, clothing, &c., removed and disinfected167137485649494916017
Articles burnt by consent4720238107
Courts and yards of houses paved, or paving repaired76506358247
Drainage of houses altered, improved, or re-constructed.789412093385
Traps to drains in houses, yards, or courts, improved4174291154
Closet pans and traps re-set319403092
Floors of closets repaired31852248
Closets provided with a water supply and flushing apparatus6191522179
Defective water fittings to closets repaired30543026140
Closets cleansed or repaired152244249143788
Walls of yards or courts limewashed353618173325
Water supply to houses improved4074221137
Nuisances from dung and other offensive matter removed376011830245
Area-gratings, cellar-flaps, &c., repaired23189151
Houses closed by Magistrate's order, or by consent, as unfit for human habitation2314...138
Dust-bins provided, or repaired, or removed and galvanised iron dust pails substituted681073711223
Samples under sale of Food and Drugs Act submitted to the Public Analyst33333640142
Animals, kept so as to constitute a nuisance, removed...3......3
Casks, &c., of putrid meat, &c., destroyed as unfit for human food...2133...135
Retention of dead bodies removed132...6
Filthy bedding removed from furnished rooms...............
Sheds in yards use 1 as dwellings discontinued for such use1.........1
Stables removed from yards of houses...1......1
Cesspools abolished......235

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In addition to this Return, the Inspectors report that they have forwarded to the London
County Council 30 notices of dangerous structures, which have been promptly attended to.
The Cowhouses, 19 in number, and the Slaughter-houses, 10 in number, and the bake-houses,
66 in number, have been periodically visited during the year.