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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TABLE P.—SANITARY AND OTHER WORK PERFORMED BY THE INSPECTORS, 1900.
Quarter ended March 31st. | Quarter ended June 30th. | Quarter ended Sept. 29th | Quarter ended Dec. 29th. | Totals for the year. | |
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Number of Inspections of Houses as shown in the Official Returns | 6006 | 4871 | 4825 | 5407 | 21109 |
Preliminary notices served | 461 | 567 | 536 | 474 | 2038 |
Compulsory orders issued | 214 | 136 | 169 | 135 | 654 |
Summonses taken cut under Public Health (London) Act | 7 | 7 | 1 | ... | 15 |
,, ,, Adulteration of Food and Drugs Acts | ... | ... | 1 | ... | 1 |
Cellars used as dwellings caused to be discontinued to be so used | 5 | 8 | 31 | 10 | 54 |
Cases of overcrowding and indecent occupation abated | 14 | 5 | 12 | 16 | 47 |
Houses in which walls and ceilings have been cleansed or repaired | 340 | 257 | 276 | 221 | 1094 |
Roofs of houses repaired | 41 | 56 | 42 | 20 | 159 |
Ventilation of houses improved | 2 | 18 | 8 | 1 | 29 |
Houses in which floorings of rooms, staircases, risers or treads, window-sashes and frames, baluster rails, or fire stoves have been repaired | 36 | 16 | 12 | 10 | 74 |
Eave-gutters and stack-pipes provided or repaired | 36 | 23 | 8 | 11 | 78 |
Nuisances from smoke abated | 5 | 5 | 10 | 3 | 23 |
Rooms disinfected with sulphurous acid gas after the occurrence of cases of infectious disease | 175 | 244 | 190 | 209 | 818 |
Articles, consisting of beds, bedding, clothing, etc., removed and disinfected | 3233 | 5690 | 5794 | 4229 | 18946 |
Articles burnt by consent | 9 | 9 | |||
Courts and yards of houses paved, or paving repaired | 31 | 37 | 17 | 22 | 110 |
Drainage of houses altered, improved or reconstructed | 59 | 55 | 34 | 35 | 183 |
Traps to drains in houses, yards or courts improved | 104 | 83 | 44 | 56 | 287 |
New w.c.'s erected | 14 | 1 | 5 | 4 | 24 |
Closet pans and traps re-set | 60 | 72 | 40 | 48 | 220 |
Closets provided with light and ventilation | 10 | 17 | 2 | ... | 29 |
Closets provided with a water supply and flushing apparatus, or defective' water fittings repaired | 78 | 54 | 41 | 23 | 196 |
Closets cleansed or repaired | 132 | 143 | 154 | 75 | 504 |
Urinals erected | 3 | ... | ... | ... | 3 |
Walls of yards or courts limewashed | 30 | 49 | 35 | 27 | 141 |
Water supply to houses provided or improved | 25 | 27 | 16 | 12 | 80 |
Nuisances from dung or other offensive matter removed | 68 | 53 | 41 | 29 | 191 |
Houses closed by Magistrates' order, or by consent, as unfit for human habitation | ... | 7 | ... | ... | 7 |
Dust-bins provided or repaired, or removed, and galvanised iron dust-pails substituted | 4 | 1 | 24 | 6 | 35 |
Samples under Sale of Food and Drugs Act submitted to the Public Analyst | 30 | 30 | 38 | 43 | 141 |
Bakehouses cleansed | 1 | 9 | 10 | 1 | 21 |
Workshops cleansed | 26 | 40 | 36 | 19 | 121 |
Ventilation of workshops improved | 5 | 5 | 5 | 3 | 18 |
Overcrowding in workshops abated | 4 | 5 | 3 | 6 | 18 |
Additional closet accommodation to workshops provided | 21 | 9 | 14 | 5 | 49 |
Workshops closed | ... | 4 | ... | 1 | 5 |
Receptacles for dung provided and reconstructed | 2 | 3 | 2 | ... | 7 |
Nuisance from gas stoves in workshops abated | ... | ... | ... | 4 | 4 |
In addition to the above the Inspectors have had destroyed, as unfit for human food,
during the year, the following articles, viz.:—2,650 eggs; 1 cwt. of sweetstuff; 5
bushels of apples; 12 cases of bananas; 17 boxes of oranges; 337 boxes of strawberries;
163 baskets of cherries; 1 box and 6 barrels of grapes; 334 baskets and 60 boxes of
plums; 35 bushels of pears; 31 boxes of tomatoes; 80 baskets and 689 cases of sloes;
1 sieve of peaches; 1 box of pomegranates; 2 bags of walnuts; 46 bags of potatoes;
40 bags of turnip tops; 34 bags of onions; 17 bags of offal; 6 boxes of mackerel and
300 herrings.