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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 October 1st, 1870.
| I.—Inspections consequent on Nuisances, Complaints, and Offensive and Injurious Trades. | ' Houses and Places Inspected with respect to their Sanitary State | 90 |
| Orders issued for Sanitary Works | 70 | |
| Works done | 60 | |
| Works in progress | 10 | |
| Inspections of Offensive Trades | 25 | |
| „ Mews and Manure Wharves | 60 | |
| „ Cow-houses | 50 | |
| „ Slaughter-houses | 70 | |
| „ Bake-house | 12 | |
| „ Mortuary or Dead-house almost daily | — | |
| „ Provision Markets every Saturday | — | |
| „ Churches, Chapels and Schools | 16 | |
| „ Factories, Work-rooms and other Public Institution | 20 | |
| „ Small-Pox Conveyance used | 2 | |
| II.—Systematic Sanitary Inspection of Dwellings | Houses and Premises visited and inspected | 209 |
| Re-inspections | 200 | |
| Orders issued for Sanitary Works | 177 | |
| Works executed | 177 | |
| Formal Orders issued by the Vestry | 1 | |
| III.— Attendances upon Magistrates, Surveyor, at the Police,Coroner's Courts, and Licensing Meetings. | Attendances | 20 |
| Summonses | 2 | |
| For obtaining Summonses | 2 | |
| „ hearing „ | 2 | |
| Letters written and received | 8 |
Nuisances and Complaints during the Quarter ending
October lst.
The register book of complaints and nuisances contains
133 cases, which admit of the following classification:—
Defects of drainage and untrapped gulleys. 17
„ „ water supply 3
Dirty state of premises, water closets, urinals,
stagnant water, percolations, &c 28
Offensive trades, marine stores, frying of fish,
ballast burning, bad meat, &c. 7
Overcrowding and bad ventilation —
Smoke nuisances —
Animals being dirtily kept, and noises from. 5
Smells from the Canal Basin 1
Accumulation and deposit of manure, garbage,
refuse, dust, dung, &c 13
Smells from decaying and putrid substances . 15
Defective cleansing of Roadways 1
Dangerous Structure —
Miscellaneous other complaints 19
109
These Complaints received almost immediate attention.