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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 December 31st, 1870.
| I.—Inspections consequent on Nuisances, Complaints, and Offensive and Injurious Trades. | Houses and Places Inspected with respect to their Sanitary State | 106 |
| Orders issued for Sanitary Works | 114 | |
| Works done | 210 | |
| Works in progress | 18 | |
| Inspections of offensive Trade | 20 | |
| „ Mews and Manure Wharves | 45 | |
| „ Cow-houses | 30 | |
| „ Slaughter-houses | 50 | |
| „ Bake-houses | 10 | |
| Mortuary or Dead-house almost daily | — | |
| „ Provision Markets every Saturday | — | |
| „ Churches, Chapels and Schools | 8 | |
| „ Factories, Work-rooms and other Public Institutions | 12 | |
| „ Fever Small-Pox Conveyance used | 18 | |
| II.—Systematic Sanitary Inspection of Dwellings | r Houses and Premises visited and inspected | 121 |
| Re-inspection | 100 | |
| Orders issued for Sanitary works | 242 | |
| Works Executed | 114 | |
| Formal orders issued by the vestry | 1 | |
| III.— Attendances upon Magistrates, Surveyor, at the Police,Coroner's A Courts, and Licensing Meetings. | Attendances | 12 |
| Summonses | 1 | |
| For Obtaining Summonses | 1 | |
| „ hearing | 3 | |
| Letters Written and Received | 35 |
Nuisances and Complaints during the Quarter ending
December 31s£, 1870.
The register book of complaints and nuisances contains.
134 cases, which admit of the following classification :—
Defects of drainage and untrapped gulleys. 29
„ „ water supply 19
Dirty state of premises, water closets, urinals,
stagnant water, percolations, &c 6
Offensive trades, marine stores, frying of fish,
ballast burning, bad meat, &c. —
Overcrowding and bad ventilation 4
Smoke nuisances 1
Animals being dirtily kept, and noises from 12
Smells from the Canal Basin 2
Accumulation and deposit of manure, garbage,
refuse, dust, dung, &c 16
Smells from decaying and putrid substances 26
Defective cleansing of Roadways 1
Dangerous Structure 1
Miscellaneous other complaints 17
134
These Complaints received almost immediate attention.