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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 June 25th, 1870.
| I.—Inspections consequent on Nuisances, Complaints, and Offensive and Injurious Trades. | ' Houses and Places Inspected with respect to their Sanitary State | 108 |
| Orders issued for Sanitary Works | 91 | |
| Works done | 81 | |
| Works in progress | 15 | |
| Inspections of Offensive Trades | 13 | |
| „ Mews and Manure Wharves | 56 | |
| „ Cow-houses | 56 | |
| „ Slaughter-houses | 75 | |
| „ Bake-house | 18 | |
| „ Mortuary or Dead-house almost daily .. | — | |
| „ Provision Markets every Saturda | — | |
| „ Churches, Chapels and School | 12 | |
| „ Factories, Work-rooms and other Public | 20 | |
| „ Small-Pox Conveyance used | 2 | |
| II.—Systematic Sanitary Inspection of Dwellings | Houses and Premises visited and inspected | 405 |
| Re-inspections | 380 | |
| Orders issued for Sanitary Works | 144 | |
| Works executed | 114 | |
| Formal Orders issued by the Vestry | 4 | |
| III.— Attendances upon Magistrates, Surveyor, at the Police, Coroner's Courts, and Licensing Meetings. | Attendances | 21 |
| Summonses | 1 | |
| For obtaining Summonses | ||
| „ hearing „ | 1 | |
| Letters written | 14 |
Nuisances and Complaints during the last Quarter ending
June 25, 1870.
The register book of complaints and nuisances contains
133 cases, which admit of the following classification :—
Defects of drainage and untrapped gulleys. 28
„ „ water supply 2
Dirty state of premises, water closets, urinals,
stagnant water, percolations, &c 12
Offensive trades, marine stores, frying of fish,
ballast burning, bad meat, &c. 6
Overcrowding and bad ventilation 4
Smoke nuisances 3
Animals being dirtily kept, and noises from. 7
Smells from the Canal Basin 1
Accumulation and deposit of manure, garbage,
refuse, dust, dung, &c. 38
Smells from decaying and putrid substances . 19
Defective cleansing of Roadways 5
Dangerous Structure 1
Miscellaneous other complaint 7
133
These Complaints received almost immediate attention.