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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 1898

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

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1898]
154

Table: Table CI.

Table CI.

Places Inspected.QUARTERS.The Year.
First.Second.Third.Fourth.
Number of Houses Inspected2,0341,6821,5071,5796,802
Re-inspections, Calls made, &c.18,37216,19412,12113,27659,966
Visits to Bakehouses....224
Do. Cowhouses10223147110
Do. Slaughter-houses21215380175
Do. Stables and Yards3526289675402,487
Do. Courts, &c.3..19123
Do. Factories and Workshops †• •62..8
Do. Fields, Lanes, &c...6..11
D«. Factories, Horse Slaughterhouses, Piggeries, &c., Belle Isle1225120
Do. Under Sale of Food and Drugs Acts253208200236897
Dust Removals Ordered..........
Registered Lodging Houses ‡••••121426
Total Inspections21,05718,76314,92215,77770,519

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* See also Inspector West's report ante, p. 143.
† ,, ,, ,, and Miss Gray's report ante, p. 142.
‡ „ Jordan's Report ante, p. 152.
It became necessary in 206 instances to take legal proceedings for
the abatement of nuisances, or for offences against the By-laws or the
provisions of the Public Health Act. In 159 instances the Vestry
were successful, while the cases that were lost only numbered 7, while
32 were withdrawn on the work being completed.
It should be mentioned that the railway stations situated in
Islington were inspected, and that sanitary work of great importance,
and, indeed, in some instances, very extensive, was executed, both in
the stations themselves and in the residences of the officials.