London's Pulse: Medical Officer of Health reports 1848-1972

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Bermondsey 1898

Report on the sanitary condition of the Parish of Bermondsey for the year 1898

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TABLE —continued.
Stopped drains cleared ... ... ... ... ... 241
Cesspools emptied, cleansed and filled up with
dry rubbish ... ... ... ... ... .... 9
Yards and forecourts paved ... ... ... ... ... 408
Drains and branches tested with water ... ... 1350
Houses supplied with water ... ... ... ... 33
Defective roofs repaired ... ... ... ... ... 324
Defective rain-shoots and gutters repaired ... 494
Offensive accumulations removed ... ... ... 79
Houses drained into the public sewer ... ... 34
Defective water apparatus in w.c.'s repaired ... 265
Animals kept so as to be a nuisance, removed ... 15
Urinals cleansed, supplied with water and doors... 33
Slaughter-houses inspected and licensed ... ... 5
Cow-houses inspected and licensed ... ... ... 6
Bakehouses inspected ... ... ... ... ... 80
Stables and other premises drained and paved... 13
Waste water pipes disconnected from drains and
made to discharge in the open-air ... ... 46
For providing the requisite means of ventilation
by means of excavating underground floors and
inserting air bricks ... ... ... ... ... 141
For separating the water used for flushing w.c.'s
from that used for ordinary purposes ... ... 34
Houses inspected where infectious diseases occurred ... ... ... ... ... ... ... 889
Letters written to owners, agents and others ... 978
Persons suffering from infectious diseases removed
to hospital ... ... ... ... ... 726
Dead bodies removed from rooms to mortuary... 34
31 Summonses taken out before Police Magistrates,
for not complying with orders of the
Vestry. Fines inflicted £50 10s. 0d. and
£1 4s. 0d. costs) ... ... ... ... ...
Food destroyed—1 barrel crabs, 3 baskets cherries,
1 box skate, 46 rabbits, 222 pomegranates,
50 barrels sardines, 5 baskets blackberries,
760 turkeys, 78 barrels livers, 123
eggs, 5 pipes of lemons, 210 cabbages, 2½
boxes eggs, 25 cwt. German sausages, 5 boxes
fried fish, 24 fore-ends of bacon, 1 trunk
haddock and whiting ... ... ... ...