Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
[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 published in former Reports:—
Streets Inspected Systematically. | No. of HousesInspected. | 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 public Space in each House. | Average Cubic Space for each person. | Cubic Space of inhabited Dwellings. | Average No. of Doors, | Windows, | Chimnies. | Defects in Water supply. | Defects in W.C. Apparatus | Defects in Traps & Drains | Defects in Cleansing of | No. of Sanitary Orders issued. | ||
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each house. | each room. | Yards. | Houses | |||||||||||||||||
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Douglas Place is closely populated, the houses have very small back yards. Edgware Place is a
square Court, with only one small outlet; it will be seen that here are nearly 100 children. Modena
Street and Elcom Street are new Streets in Kensal New Town on the banks of the Canal.