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Lewisham 1897

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Lewisham

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TABLE VI.

Inspector's Report of the Sanitary Work completed in the Year 1897.

Sanitary Districts.Number of Complaints received during the year.Number of Houses, Premises, &e., inspected.No. of Re-inspections of Houses, Premises, &c.Written Intimations served.Orders issued for Sanitary Amendments of Houses, li and Premises.Statutory Notices served.Houses, Premises, &c., Cleansed, Repaired, White washed, &c.Roofs, Gutters, Rain Water Pipes, &c., repaired.Houses Disinfected after illness of an Infectious character.Quantities of Bedding disinfected in apparatus.Articles of Bedding, Clothing, &c., destroyed.House Drains.Privies & Waterclosets.Dust Bins.Water Supply.Miscellaneous.Legal proceedings : i.e., Summonses.Houses inspected under house to house inspection during the year.
Repaired, Cleansed.R.W. Pipes Disconnected from Drains.Waste Pipes Disconnected from Drains.Traps provided.Ventilated.Houses provided with New Drains.Repaired, &c.Additional Water Closets provided.Supplied with Water.Water Closets reconstructed.Soil Pipes reconstructed.Ditto, repaired and ventilated.New provided.Repaired, Covered, &c.Cisterns (new) erected.Water Supply to houses reinstated.Cisterns Cleansed, Repaired, or Covered.Waste Pipes connected with Drains, &c., abolished.Water Certificates granted.No. of Lodging Houses registered under 35th sec. of the "Sanitary Act, 1866," or 94th sect., "Public Health (Lond.) Act, 1891. ,Overcrowding in houses, or rooms, abated.Dust Removal—No. of Complaints received and attended to.Yards to houses paved, or paving amended.Removal of accumulations of Dung, Stagnant Water, Animal and other Refuse.Receptacles for Dung erected or improved.Animals Removed, being improperly kept.Regularly Inspected.
Bakehouses.Milkshops.Licensed Cowsheds.Workshops.Licensed Slaughter-houses.
Blackheath and Lewisham3102350841180067725619362298259...31031819746314393162...26659011014923421...26183943421183721084425326513223833562
Sydenham and Forest-hill31916414770744438226215161226206132614121066041831714128167116412422736473808177...644265604438499...722245
Penge.257206627963868945116735047218226568279915842414244715097156301026297408...134801623922145...27701
Totals.8866057159771930120452752429657451215753995371134641732224564891708424370617541699860576192137855551606918921282722317621508