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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Systematic Sanitary Inspection of Streets by Inspector T. R. Clifford , continued from Quarter ending March 1872.
Streets. | Houses. | Inhabitants. | Orders issued. | Remarks. |
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Woodchester Street | 102 Census 95 | 1497 | 80 | Very good sanitary condition— far better than Clarendon-St. or Cirencester St.; better class of people |
Carlton Terrace | 25 | 253 | 6 | Defective drainage—remedied by constructing new pipe drains in lieu of rotten pipes put in when the houses were built |
Asburn Cottages and | 25 | 222 | 11 | Overcrowing, bad paving in yards, no covers to water receptacles, windows not made to open from top, no draw off tap to some of the water receptacles, ladling water out with any dirty vessel, an underground tank to be discontinued, and cistern provided. |
Irongate Wharf Road | ||||
Defective w.c. and ventilation, and dirty walls, &c. | ||||
One water closet removed from underneath stairs into yard, defective drains repaired. Discontinue keeping horses in stables, not being properly drained | ||||
Lanark Place | 12 | 50 | 7 | Cleansing, repairing, paving yards, dust bins, w.s., w.c., &c.; houses otherwise clean |
Wharves North side . | .. | .. | 12 | For cleaning out mud and offensive maters thoroughly from bed of the Canal Basin |
Clarendon Terrace . | 1G | 185 | 14 | Pave yards, trap drains, defective w.s. to w.c.; in some houses water supply pipes enter at top of cistern in place of near the bottom, consequently no water to w.c. occasionally |