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Lewisham 1899

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Lewisham]

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table vii.
Inspector''s Report of the Sanitary Work completed in the Year 1899.
Sanitary Districts.
Number of Complaints received during the year.
Number of Houses, Premises, &c., inspected.
No. of Re-inspections of Houses, Premises, &c.
Written Intimations served.
Orders issued for Sanitary Amendments of Houses,
and Premises.
Statutory Notices served.
Houses, Premises, &c., Cleansed, Repaired, Whitewashed,
&c.
Roofs, Gutters, Rain Water Pipes, &c , repaired.
Houses Disinfected after illness of an Infectious
character.
Quantities of Bedding disinfected in apparatus.
Articles of Bedding, Clothing, &c., destroyed.
House Drains.
Privies & Waterclosets.
Dust
Bins.
Water Supply.
Miscellaneous.
Legal proceedings : i.e., Summonses.
Houses inspected under house to house inspection
during the year.
Repaired, Cleansed.
R.W. Pipes Disconnected from Drains.
Waste Pipes Disconnected from Drains.
J Traps provided.
Ventilated.
Houses provided with New Drains.
Repaired, &c.
Additional Water Closets provided.
Supplied with Water.
Water Closets reconstructed.
Soil Pipes reconstructed.
Ditto, repaired and ventilated.
New provided.
Repaired, Covered, &c.
Cisterns (new) erected.
Water Supply to houses reinstated.
Cisterns Cleansed, Repaired, or Covered.
Waste Pipes connected with Drains, &c.,
abolished.
Water Certificates granted.
No. of Lodging Houses registered under 35th
sec. of the "Sanitary Act, 1866," or 94th
sect., " Public Health (Lond.) Act, 1891."
Overcrowding in houses, or rooms, abated.
Dust Removal—No. of Complaints received
and attended trv.
Yards to houses paved, or paving amended. J
Removal of accumulations of Dung, Stagnant
Water, Animal and other Refuse.
Receptacles for Dung erected or improved.
Animals Removed, being improperly kept.
Regularly Inspected.
Bakehouses.
Milkshops.
Licensed Cowsheds.
Workshops.
Licensed Slaughter-houses.
Blackheath
and
Lewisham
422
2943
8750
1073
924
169
209
78
634
675
9
242
166
127
410
130
156
186
7
194
395
150
266
190
25
...
40
514
6
1111
18
12
46
254
38
22
13
36
64
8
405
8
14
355
Sydenham
and
Porest-hil
369
1597
4595
533
437
165
162
106
231
204
2
214
137
47
453
98
189
58
21
42
543
170
192
186
...
2
49
250
2
289
2
1
39
186
55
2
6
40
43
7
...
5
3
91
Penge.
101
1256
2138
430
475
72
129
84
95
85
1
85
56
22
134
5
10
25
...
48
136
47
38
31
...
...
16
29
...
53
...
8
6
65
16
6
12
22
17
4
2
2
2
423
Totals.
892
5799
15483
2036
1836
406
500
268
960
964
12
541
359
196
997
233
355
269
28
284
1074
367
496
407
25
2
105
793
8
1453
20
21
91
505
109
30
31
98
124
19
407
15
19
869