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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
Kensington 1897
Annual report on the health, sanitary condition, &c., &c., of the Parish of St. Mary Abbotts, Kensington for the year, 1897
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| Sanitary Districts.1 | No. of Complaints made by Inhabitants. &c. i | No. of Mouses. Premises, &c.. inspected. | No. of Re-inspections of Houses, Premises, &c. | Results of Inspection. | House Drains. | Water Closets. | Dust Receptacles. | Water Supply. | Miscellaneous. | ||||||||||||||||
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| Written Intimations of Nuisances served. | Notices served by order of the Works and Sanitary Committee. | Final Notices signed by Medical Officer served. | , Houses, Premises, &c., Cleansed, Repaired, Whitewashed, &c. | Houses disinfected after illness of an Infectious character.t | Repaired, Cleansed, &c. | Ventilated, Trapped, &c. | Repaired, &c. | Supplied with Water. | Soil-pipes Ventilated. | New provided. | Repaired, Covered, &.c. | Cisterns erected. | Cisterns Cleansed, Repaired, Covered, &c. | Waste-pipes connected with "drain*, &c., abolished. | No. of Lodging Houses newly Registered under 94th Section of the Public Health (London) Act, 1891.3: | Yards and Areas paved and drained. | Animals removed, being improperly kept. | Regularly Inspected. | Legal proceedings, i.e., Summonses. | ||||||
| Bakehouses. | Licensed Cowsheds. | Licensed Slaughter-Houses. | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| North | 258 | 700 | 2593 | 390 | 275 | 42 | 90 | 264 | 58 | 61 | 188 | 11 | 7! | 36 | 9 | 4 | 14 | 38 | 1 | 21 | 1 | 7 | |||
| N.E. | 216 | 869 | 2851 | 345 | 214 | '4 | 95 | 160 | 155 | 97 | 19 | 175 | 79 | 24 | 54 | 2 | 35 | 18 | 54 | 27 | 1 | 3 | |||
| N.W. | 174 | 1105 | 2948 | 331 | 479 | 126 | 309 | 194 | 81 | 41 | 247 | 29 | 15 | 43 | 80 | 6 | 52 | 2 | 166 | 13 | 17 | ||||
| Central | 180 | 894 | 2153 | 323 | 216 | 27 | 139 | 121 | 166 | 79 | 56 | 47 | 92 | 11 | 38 | 12 | 82 | 9 | 208 | 26 | 1 | 6 | 5 | ||
| S.E. | 136 | 1321 | 2208 | 214 | 51 | 4 | 55 | 91 | 47 | 23 | 105 | 68 | 47 | 8 | 12 | 16 | 17 | 45 | 28 | ||||||
| S.W. | 168 | 1076 | 3092 | 361 | 223 | 29 | 193 | 176 | 74 | 39 | 288 | 131 | 68 | 40 | 32 | 25 | 109 | 163 | 4 | 23 | 1 | 6 | |||
| 1132 | 5968 | 15845 | 1964 | 1458 | 232 | 881 | 1006 | 581 | 340 | 898 | 461 | 372 | 162 | 225 | 65 | 309 | 29 | 674 | 138 | 4 | 13 | 35 | |||
* For a description of the Sanitary Districts, see page 2.
† Done under the supervision of a Special Officer.
‡ The total number of houses on the Register in December, 1897, in round figures, was 1,500. (Vide page 120).