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Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London

Paddington 1870

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Paddington]

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Table: Tabular Statement of Inspections reported and Works of House Improvement completed under the Orders of the Sanitary Committee, for the Year ending 25th March, 1871.

Tabular Statement of Inspections reported and Works of House Improvement completed under the Orders of the Sanitary Committee, for the Year ending 25th March, 1871.

I. Systematic Inspections.Houses inspected with reference to their Sanitary condition959
Works executed651
Slaughter-houses under inspection during the year227
Cow-houses ditto ditto159
Bake-houses ditto ditto54
Urinals under Inspection56
II. Inspections consequent on ComplaintsHouses or other Premises visited1043
Works executed762

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The above Statement does not include the Premises and Places inspected as to the execution
of the 22nd, 27th, and 35th Sections of the "Sanitary Act, 1866," and "The Diseases
Prevention Act, 1855." Vaccination Inspections have since 1868 been entrusted to the
Board of Guardians.