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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 III.
Summary of Sanitary Work, Quarter ending April 2nd, 1870.
| I.—Inspections consequent on Nuisances, Complaints, and Offensive and Injurious Trades. | Houses and Places Inspected with respect to their Sanitary State | 174 |
| Orders issued for Sanitary Works | 117 | |
| Works done | 112 | |
| Works in progress | 5 | |
| Inspections of Offensive Trades | 11 | |
| „ Mews and Manure Wharves | 46 | |
| „ Cow-houses | 20 | |
| „ Slaughter-houses | 30 | |
| „ Bake-house | 12 | |
| „ Mortuary or Dead-house | 10 | |
| „ Provision fMarkets | 13, | |
| „ Churches, Chapels and Schools | 4 | |
| „ Factories, Work-rooms and other Public Institutions | 11 | |
| „ Small-Pox Conveyance | ||
| II.—Systematic Sanitary Inspection of Dwellings | Houses and Premises visited and inspected | 230 |
| Re-inspections | 71 | |
| Orders issued for Sanitary Works | 71 | |
| Works executed | 93 | |
| Formal Orders issued by the Vestry | 2 | |
| III.— Attendances upon Magistrates, Surveyor, at the Police,Corouer's -Courts, and Licensing Meetings. | Attendances | 4 |
| Summonses | 1 | |
| For obtaining Summonses | I | |
| „ hearing „ | 1 | |
| Letters written | 13 |
Nuisances and Complaints during the last Quarter ending
March 26, 1870.
The register book of complaints and nuisances contains
112 cases, which admit of the following classification:—
Defects of drainage and untrapped gulleys. —
„ „ water supply 16
Dirty state of premises, water closets, urinals,
stagnant water, percolations, &c 22
Offensive trades, marine stores, frying of fish,
ammoniacal liquor, bad meat, &c 2
Overcrowding and bad ventilation 3
Smoke nuisances 1
Animals being dirtily kept, and noises from. 4
Smells from the Canal Basin 1
Accumulation and deposit of manure, garbage,
refuse, dust, dung, &c 41
Smells from decaying and putrid substances . 3
Defective cleansing of Roadways 0
Dead-house visits 10
Miscellaneous other complaints 9
112