Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
Thirty-eighth annual report on the health and sanitary condition of the Parish of St. Mary, Islington
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Table K.
DISTRICTS. | Totals. | ||||||||||||||
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1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | ||
Number of Houses inspected | 384 | 527 | 330 | 409 | 270 | 460 | 249 | 476 | 1172 | 487 | 703 | 499 | 554 | 652 | 7172 |
Re-inspections, Calls made, &c. | 2435 | 2806 | 2346 | 2569 | 1718 | 4269 | 2979 | 2753 | 2198 | 2503 | 3587 | 2716 | 3597 | 3258 | 39734 |
Visits to Bakehouses | 42 | 3 | .. | 20 | 1 | 34 | 5 | 16 | 1 | 13 | 5 | 13 | 2 | 16 | 171 |
Do. Cowhouses | 1 | .. | .. | 2 | .. | 1 | 3 | .. | 5 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 8 | 2 | 29 |
Do. Slaughter-houses | 1 | .. | .. | 5 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 9 | 7 | 19 | 4 | 12 | 15 | 4 | 83 |
Do. Stables and Yards | 1 | 3 | .. | .. | .. | 1 | .. | 33 | .. | 26 | 3 | 5 | 103 | 20 | 195 |
Do. Courts, &c. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | 1 | .. | .. | .. | 3 | .. | 1 | .. | 1 | 6 |
Do. Factories and Workshops | .. | .. | .. | .. | 6 | .. | .. | 1 | .. | 7 | 3 | .. | 16 | 1 | 34 |
Do. Fields, Lanes, &c. | .. | .. | .. | .. | 1 | .. | .. | 2 | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | 2 | 5 |
Do. Factories, Horse Slaughter-houses, Piggeries, &c., Bell Isle | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | 2 | 25 | 3 | 9 | 22 | 8 | 8 | 77 |
Do. Under Sale of Food and Drugs Acts | 6 | 11 | .. | 1 | 18 | 10 | .. | 36 | 16 | 12 | 32 | 19 | 28 | 8 | 197 |
Dust Removals Ordered | 41 | 13 | .. | .. | 1 | .. | .. | 2 | .. | .. | 2 | 2 | 7 | .. | 68 |
Registered Lodging Houses | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | 5 | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | 5 |
Total Inspections, &c. | 2911 | 3363 | 2676 | 3006 | 2018 | 4783 | 3238 | 3330 | 3424 | 3075 | 4349 | 3293 | 4338 | 3972 | 47776 |
Improvements. | |||||||||||||||
Drains— | |||||||||||||||
Constructed | 34 | 3 | 61 | 27 | 18 | 63 | 57 | 35 | 57 | 5 | 97 | 87 | 107 | 14 | 665 |
Improved or repaired | 35 | 51 | 74 | 36 | 11 | 123 | 38 | 68 | 20 | 42 | 101 | 50 | 72 | 91 | 812 |
Traps fixed | 206 | 115 | 484 | 131 | 233 | 356 | 400 | 260 | 284 | 101 | 437 | 400 | 538 | 188 | 4133 |
Cesspools- | |||||||||||||||
Abolished | .. | 1 | .. | 1 | .. | 5 | .. | .. | .. | .. | 1 | 1 | 12 | .. | 21 |
Cleansed or disinfected | .. | 16 | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | 1 | .. | .. | 1 | 18 |
Privies and Water Closets— | |||||||||||||||
Pan, trap and water supply furnished | 107 | 65 | 173 | 27 | 33 | 205 | 114 | 4 | 90 | 26 | 167 | 130 | 166 | 63 | 1370 |
Pan and trap only furnished | 11 | 38 | 1 | 30 | 25 | 27 | 15 | 91 | 3 | 11 | 12 | 11 | .. | 15 | 290 |
Water supply furnished | 6 | 47 | 9 | 8 | 6 | 38 | 16 | 107 | 84 | 5 | 8 | 17 | 17 | 19 | 387 |
Dust Bins— | |||||||||||||||
Constructed | 29 | 3 | 11 | 10 | 10 | 63 | 3 | 12 | 9 | 2 | 57 | 57 | 14 | 14 | 294 |
Repaired and Covers adapted | 31 | 9 | 8 | 13 | 2 | 26 | 10 | 3 | 2 | 8 | 57 | 34 | 15 | 14 | 232 |
Surface Drains and Pavements of Yards— Constructed | .. | 7 | 15 | 1 | 1 | 66 | 88 | 15 | 27 | 56 | 60 | 64 | 75 | 482 | |
Relaid | 82 | 47 | 116 | 98 | 4 | 193 | 30 | 148 | 51 | 63 | 93 | 133 | 178 | 164 | 1400 |
General Water— | |||||||||||||||
New receptacles provided | 3 | 46 | 5 | 63 | 1 | 8 | 7 | .. | 6 | 1 | 6 | 18 | 163 | 4 | 331 |
Receptacles repaired and cleansed | 30 | 21 | 26 | 14 | 6 | 134 | 9 | 7 | 15 | 4 | 26 | 51 | 75 | 56 | 474 |
Water supply provided | .. | 8 | 3 | 1 | 9, | 3 | .. | 6 | 7 | 4 | 12 | 15 | 13 | 17 | 91 |
Other improvements— | |||||||||||||||
House generally reparied | 153 | 1 | 32 | .. | .. | .. | .. | 7 | 26 | .. | 3 | 27 | 37 | 5 | 291 |
Do. &c., cleansed or limewashed | 60 | 19 | 11 | 88 | 1 | 156 | 17 | 13 | 37 | 46 | 96 | 123 | 133 | 20 | 820 |
Do. ventilated | 91 | 49 | 124 | 37 | 2 | .. | 111 | .. | 144 | 23 | 25 | 76 | 277 | 43 | 1002 |
Overcrowding abated | 3 | .. | 5 | .. | 1 | 7 | .. | 2 | 10 | 1 | 7 | 1 | 2 | 5 | 44 |
Illegal use of underground Rooms for sleeping discontinued | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | 1 | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | 8 | .. | .. | 9 |
Other Amendments, or Nuisances abated | 129 | 278 | 450 | 211 | 111 | 174 | 67 | 194 | 295 | 140 | 38 | 308 | 1167 | 194 | 3756 |
Rooms fumigated | 206 | 217 | 152 | 219 | 92 | 216 | 190 | 163 | 333 | 163 | 249 | 190 | 143 | 233 | 2766 |
Rooms stripped and cleansed | 14 | 20 | 8 | 21 | 5 | 18 | 29 | 9 | 29 | 11 | 54 | 12 | 26 | 62 | 308 |
Total Improvements | 1237 | 1054 | 1760 | 1050 | 564 | 1817 | 1179 | 1217 | 1517 | 683 | 1603 | 1809 | 3219 | 1287 | 19996 |