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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

Islington 1897

Forty-second annual report on the health and sanitary condition of the Parish of St. Mary, Islington

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1897
SANITARY WORK.
The work performed by the District Sanitary Inspectors was very
creditable to them as a staff, and showed an increase on that which they
had effected in the preceding year. As many as 7,688 houses were
inspected, which entailed 57,297 subsequent visits to ascertain if the
nuisances were being abated in an efficient manner.
The following Table sets forth the particulars of the inspections.

Table: Table C. Giving a Summary of the Sanitary Work performed by theInspectors in 1897.

Table C. Giving a Summary of the Sanitary Work performed by theInspectors in 1897.

Places Inspected.QUARTERS.The Year.
First.Second.Third.Fourth.
Number of Houses Inspected1,7691,7821,9062,2417,688
Re-inspections, Calls made, &c.15,01613,81213,30115,16857,297
Visits to Bakehouses *3..115
Do. Cowhouses2321212287
Do. Slaughter-houses58264850182
Do. Stables and Yards8991,1536174883,157
Do. Courts, &c257..941
Do. Factories and Workshops †..4..1014
Do. Fields, Lanes, &c.......1212
Do. Factories, Horse Slaughter-houses, Piggeries, &c., Belle Isle4....711
Do. Under Sale of Food and Drugs Acts237219110176742
Dust Removals Ordered9....110
Registered Lodging Houses ‡76..1..77
Total Inspections18,10917,02416,00518,18569,323

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* See also Inspector West's report ante.
† ,, ,, ,, ,, ,, and Miss Gray's report ante.
‡ ,, ,, ,, ,, ,, ,, Jordan's Report ante.