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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 VI.
Systematic House to House Inspection.
The completed results of Systematic Sanitary Inspection this quarter enabled me to give details of the following Streets in the Hall Park Estate, which are herewith appended.
| Streets Inspected Systematically. | No. of Houses Inspected. | No. of Holdings. | No. of Rooms. | No. of Adults. | No. of Children. | Average No. of persons Living in | Total No. of Inhabitants in the Streets. | Average Cubic Space in each House. | Average Cubic Space for each person. | Cubic Space of inhabited Dwellings. | Doors, | Windows, | Chimnies. | Defects in Water supply. | Defects in W.C. Apparatus | Defects in Traps & Drains | Detects in Cleansing of | No. of Sanitary Orders issued. | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| each house. | each room. | Yards. | Houses. | |||||||||||||||||
| Hall Place | 116 | 370 | 694 | 712 | 451 | 10.0 | 1.6 | 1163 | 6920 | 634.4 | 737,820 | 2 . | 10 . | 6 | 2 | 23 | 10 | 18 | 4 | 45 | 1 |
| 6360 | ||||||||||||||||||||
| 3960 | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Cuthbert Street | 26 | 76 | 166 | 180 | 76 | 9.8 | 1.5 | 256 | 7353 | 746.7 | 19,078 | 2 . | 8 . | 6 | • • | 1 | 5 | 6 | 4 | 2 ! |
| Hethpool Street | 47 | 187 | 297 | 351 | 192 | 11.5 | 1.8 | 513 | 6936 | 600.3 | 325,992 | 2 . | 8 . | 6 | .. | • • | 15 | 3 | 2 | 39 |
| Howell Street | 21 | 68 | 118 | 121 | 78 | 9.4 | 1.6 | 199 | 7149 | 744.3 | 149,129 | 3 . | 10 . | 8 | .. | 2 | 3 | 5 | 3 | 12 |
| Crompton Street | 22 | 65 | 113 | 155 | 67 | 8.2 | 1.6 | 182 | 5744 | 694.2 | 126,348 | 2 . | 9 . | 7 | .. | 1 | 6 | 3 | 3 | 14 |
| Campbell Street | 34 | 28 | 217 | 257 | 177 | 12.7 | 2.0 | 434 | 7333 | 574.4 | 249,322 | 2 . | 8 . | 6 | .. | 1 | 13 | 5 | 4 | .. |
| Brithwaite Place | 11 | 48 | 66 | 87 | 46 | 12.0 | 2.0 | 133 | 5840 | 407.7 | 64,240 | 2 . | 8 | 6 | .. | 4 | 2 | 1 | .. | 6 |
| Hall Place West | 8 | 12 | 32 | 29 | 15 | 5.5 | 1.3 | 44 | 4224 | 768.0 | 33,792 | 2 . | 6 . | 5 | • • | 4 | 3 | 2 | • • | 4 |
| Charlotte Place | 9 | 12 | 24 | 29 | 32 | 6.7 | 2.5 | 61 | 2351 | 346.5 | 2. | 4 | .. | 1 | .. | 1 | .. | 1 | .. | 2 |
This group of streets and houses are mostly inhabited by persons engaged in daily work away
from home. There are some small tradesmen, the necessary provision shops, and one public house in
the middle of the estate. Epidemic maladies have from time to time been recorded, inspection has
been made forthwith, and orders given for disinfection, and occasionally for removal to hospital.
These houses have been built within 15 years, and are of nearly uniform size and construction ; most
are let out to weekly lodgers; some are overcrowded slightly ; but the sanitary effects are not numerous.
The drainage is tolerably good. The opening of St. Mary's Church-yard will be a great
advantage to more than 3000 persons living in this crowded locality, which indeed has only outlets
on the East side, being enclosed on three sides. The thoroughfare into the Church-yard from
the comer of Cuthbert Street ought to be opened at once.