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 Bethnal Green]
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MEMORANDUM
on
Duties of Sanitary Inspectors.
The duties of Sanitary Inspectors are of two kinds:-
1st—Routine Duties.
These have for their object the prevention of the spread of disease,
and the maintenance of the sanitary condition of the Parish.
They are:—
(a) To secure the isolation at homo, or the removal to hospital in
suitable cases, of persons suffering from various infectious
diseases, and at the removal of the patient, or termination of
the illness, by convalescence, or death, to supervise the disinfection
of the premises and bedding, and the subsequent
cleansing and lime-whiting of the walls, etc.
(b) To periodically inspect Lodging Houses, Cow Houses, Slaughter
Houses, Bakehouses, Offensive Trades, Factories where motive
power is not employed, and Schools.
(c) Duties under tho Food and Drugs' Acts.
Market inspection, and tho seizuro of unwholesome articlos of
food.
(d) To attend to notices of complaint from inhabitants of the
Parish, in respect of the existence of nuisances of various kinds,
such as choked drains, overcrowded tenements, dirty promises,
offensive accumulations, animals improperly kept, trade
nuisances, etc.
(e) Duties under the 35th section of the Sanitary Act (should
this clause bo put in operation).
(f) Duties in connection with the dust collecting and scavenging.
Name of Street. | Zymotic Diseases. | Tubercular Diseases. | General Diseases. | Total. | Name of Street. | Zymotic Diseases. | Tubercular Diseases. | General Diseases. | Total. |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Sheep lane | .. | .. | .. | .. | Turin street | 2 | 2 | 6 | 10 |
Sheldon place | 1 | .. | .. | 1 | Turville street | 7 | 1 | 8 | 16 |
Sherwood place | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | Turville buddings | 1 | 1 | .. | 2 |
Shipton street | 3 | .. | 2 | 5 | Turville square | .. | .. | .. | .. |
Short street | 1 | .. | 2 | 3 | Tuscan street | .. | .. | 3 | 3 |
Swan street | .. | .. | 2 | 2 | Type street | .. | 1 | 3 | 4 |
Smart street | .. | .. | 3 | 3 | Tyrrell street | .. | .. | 5 | 5 |
Smiths place | .. | 1 | .. | 1 | |||||
Southampton place | .. | 1 | .. | 1 | |||||
Southampton cottages | .. | .. | 1 | 1 | Usk street | 1 | l | 5 | 7 |
Southampton terrace | .. | .. | .. | .. | |||||
Southborough place | .. | .. | .. | .. | |||||
Spencer passage | .. | .. | .. | .. | Valley place | .. | .. | 1 | 1 |
Squirries street | 1 | 2 | 5 | 8 | Viaduct street | 3 | 5 | 8 | 16 |
St. Andrew street | 3 | .. | 1 | 4 | Viaduct place | .. | .. | .. | .. |
St. James road | .. | .. | 3 | 3 | Victoria street | .. | 2 | 2 | 4 |
St. John street | .. | 1 | 4 | 5 | Victoria place | .. | .. | 1 | 1 |
St. Jude street | 1 | l | 2 | 4 | Victoria park square | 2 | .. | 2 | 4 |
St. Matthias place | 1 | .. | .. | 1 | Violet street | .. | .. | 1 | 1 |
St. Peter square | .. | .. | 3 | 3 | Violet row | 1 | .. | 2 | 3 |
St. Peter street | 1 | 1 | 5 | 7 | Virginia road | 1 | 3 | 16 | 20 |
Stainsbury street | 3 | 2 | 2 | 7 | Vivian road | 2 | 3 | 4 | 9 |
Strahan street | 1 | 1 | 2 | 4 | |||||
Stroud place | .. | .. | .. | .. | |||||
Sugarlouf walk | .. | 2 | 1 | 3 | Wadeson street | 2 | .. | 5 | 7 |
Summerford street | 2 | 3 | 9 | 14 | Walsby place | .. | .. | .. | .. |
Surat place | .. | .. | 1 | 1 | Walter street ....... | 2 | 2 | 5 | 9 |
Swift Apple square | 2 | .. | 2 | 4 | Warner place | 3 | .. | 3 | 6 |
Sidney street | .. | .. | 5 | 5 | Warley street | .. | 1 | 14 | 15 |
Waterloo place | .. | .. | .. | .. | |||||
Waterloo terrace | .. | .. | 1 | 1 | |||||
Tagg street | .. | 1 | 4 | 5 | Waterloo road | .. | .. | 2 | 2 |
Tapp street | .. | .. | 2 | 2 | Weaver street | 2 | 2 | 5 | 9 |
Tavistock street | .. | .. | 1 | 1 | Weldon street | .. | .. | .. | .. |
Teale street | .. | .. | 2 | 2 | Wellington street | .. | .. | 1 | 1 |
Teesdale street | 1 | 1 | 4 | 6 | Wellington row | 2 | 3 | 10 | 15 |
Temple street | 2 | 2 | 7 | 11 | Wellington place | 1 | .. | 2 | 3 |
Tent street | 2 | 2 | 8 | 12 | Wennington road | 1 | .. | 6 | 7 |
Theydon road | .. | .. | 2 | 2 | Wharf road | .. | .. | .. | .. |
Thomas passage | .. | .. | 2 | 2 | Wharnoliffe street | 1 | 2 | 1 | 4 |
Thomas place | .. | .. | .. | .. | White street | 1 | 3 | 8 | 12 |
Thorold street | .. | .. | 3 | 3 | Whites court | .. | .. | .. | .. |
Three Colts corner | .. | .. | .. | .. | Whitechapel road | .. | .. | 1 | 1 |
Three Colts lane | .. | .. | 4 | 4 | William place | .. | .. | .. | .. |
Willow walk | 1 | .. | .. | 1 | |||||
Ditto waterlow dwellings | 2 | .. | 1 | 3 | Wilmot street | 6 | 5 | 7 | 18 |
Thurlow place | 1 | .. | 1 | 2 | Wimbolt street | 3 | 1 | 10 | 14 |
Totty street | 1 | 5 | 6 | Winchester place | .. | .. | .. | .. | |
Treudway street | 1 | 2 | 8 | 11 | Winchester crescent | .. | .. | .. | .. |