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 Lewisham]
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TABLE VI.
Blackheath and Lewisham Division | Sydenham nnd Forest-hill Division. | Penge. | Total. | |
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Number of Complaints received during the year | 12 | 68 | 92 | 519 ' |
Ditto made bv Inspectors | .56 | 216 | 75 | |
Number of Houses and Premises, &c., inspected | 164 | 635 | 167 | 966 |
Orders issued for Sanitary Amendments of Houses | 66 | 118 | 439 | |
Houses and Premises, &c., Cleansed, Repaired, and Whitewashed | 19 | 36 | 6 | 61 |
Houses Disinfected after Infectious Diseases | 19 | 26 | 20 | 60 |
House Drains Repaired, Cleansed, &c. | 29 | 76 | 41 | 146 |
Same Trapped or Ventilated | 10 | 17 | 18 | 75 |
Water Closets Repaired, Cleansed, &c. | 25 | 165 | 51 | 241 |
Same supplied with Water | 9 | 25 | 8 | 42 |
New Water Closets provided | ... | 11 | ... | 11 |
New Dust Bins provided | 70 | 682 | 36 | 788 |
Dust Bins Repaired, Covered, &c. | 12 | 75 | • • • | 87 |
New Water Cisterns provided | 9 | 15 | 5 | 29 |
Water Cisterns Cleansed, Repaired, and Covered | 15 | 25 | 21 | 61 |
No. of Lodging Houses required to be registered under 35th Clause of the Sanitary Act, 1866 | * | * | * | * |
No. of Dust Complaints and requests for removal received and attended to . | 98 | 130 | 13 | 211 |
Removal of accumulations of Dung, Stagnant Water, Animal and other Refuse | 10 | 39 | 18 | 67 |
Removal of Animals improperly kept | 2 | 9 | 7 | 18 |
Licensed Cowhouses regularly Inspected | 19 | 11 | 6 | 36 |
Licensed Slaughterhouses ditto | 10 | 8 | 4 | 22 |
Other Proceedings, e.g. Legal Proceedings | 34 | 10 | 21 | 65 |