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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 result of systematic Sanitary Inspection enables me to add the following Streets and Places to the list nublished in former Reports:—
| 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. | Average No. of D. Doors, | W. Windows, | C. Chimnies. | Defects in Water supply. | Defects in W.C. Apparatus | Defects in Traps & Drains | Defects in Cleansing of | No. of Sanitary Orders issued. | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| each house. | each room. | Yards. | Houses. | |||||||||||||||||
| Star Street | 86 | 380 | 678 | 671 | 202 | 10.1 | 1.2 | 873 | 2 houses. | 525.7 | 10618 | 2 | 7 | 5 | .. | (3) | (4) | (5) | (6) | |
| 5309 | 1 | 7 | 5 | 10 | 14 | 31 | .. | 36 | ||||||||||||
| 10807 | 1007. | 907788 | 3 | 13 | 8 | |||||||||||||||
| Market Street | 64 | 175 | 309 | 329 | 165 | 7.7 | 1.5 | 494 | 4h.7132 | 703.5 | 28528 | 2 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 9 | 7 | 7 | 39 | |
| 5321 | 318860 | 2 | 5 | 4 | ||||||||||||||||
| 1 house. | 3 | 7 | 6 | |||||||||||||||||
| Bouverie Street | 15 | 81 | 122 | 117 | 63 | 12.0 | 1.4 | 180 | 7 773 | 548. | 7772 | 3 | 13 | 8 | .. | .. | 5 | 9 | 1 | 7 |
| 14h6493 | 90902 | 1 | 9 | 2 | ||||||||||||||||
| Sale Street | 27 | 103 | 187 | 193 | 101 | 10.8 | 1.5 | 294 | .. | .. | .. | 3 | 13 | 8 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 7 |
| Titchborne Row | 12 | 24 | 44 | 41 | 44 | 7.0 | 1.9 | 85 | 3928 | 554.5 | 47136 | 2 | 6 | 4 | .. | 1 | 7 | 3 | 5 | .. |
| York Row | 11 | 27 | 48 | 40 | 47 | 7.9 | 1.8 | 87 | 4254 | 538.3 | 46794 | .. | 1 | 2 | 4 | 2 | .. | 4 | ||
| Junction Road | 4 | 17 | 24 | 21 | 11 | 8.0 | 1.3 | 32 | .. | .. | .. | 3 | 7 | 6 | .. | 2 | 2 | .. | .. | |
| Union Place | 23 | 57 | 70 | 103 | 84 | 8.1 | 2.6 | 187 | 3398 | 418. | 78156 | .. | 1 | 10 | 4 | 2 | 12 | |||
| South Wharf Road | 28 | 173 | 91 | 162 | 87 | 8.8 | 2.7 | 249 | 4 houses. | 448.8 | 12286 & | 2 | 5 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 10 | 4 | 3 | .. |
| 3072 | ||||||||||||||||||||
| 99456 | 2 | 7 | 6 | |||||||||||||||||
| 24h4144 | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Mint Cottages (1) | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | ||
| Stanley Street (2) | 21 | 86 | 168 | 179 | 64 | .. | 1.4 | 243 | 12640 | .. | 265440 | 2 | 11 | 8 | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. |
| Francis Street | 7 | 18 | 41 | 31 | 21 | 7.4 | 1.2 | 52 | 3h 6640 | 446.1 | 19920 | .. | 1 | .. | 1 | • . | .. | 2 | ||
| 4h.3320 | 13280 | |||||||||||||||||||
| All Saints' School in this Street. | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Cambridge Place | 12 | 47 | 96 | 86 | 43 | 10.7 | 1.3 | 129 | 9807 | 916.5 | 117 684 | .. | .. | 2 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 4 | ||
| Totals | 310 | 1188 | 1878 | 1973 | 932 | 2907 | ||||||||||||||
(a\ rpu^ ^ ^k®8® are incomplete inspections. (3) These Orders are either to reinstate Water supply, provide new pan, or to ventilate theW C*
(4) 1hese are to provide or amend Trap in Area, amend or cleanse Drain, &c. (5) & (6) Lime Washing Basement,Ventilate Passage and Staircase,
cleanse Area and \ard, cover, amend, provide, or empty Dust Bin.
I hese Streets are highly populated, almost every house is let out in holdings ; some houses and rooms are
occasionally found to be overcrowded, especially where the family can only afford a single room. 1 know of no
means to abate this form of overcrowding—we cannot turn them out.