Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
[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. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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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 Lewisham | 310 | 2350 | 8411 | 800 | 677 | 256 | 193 | 62 | 298 | 259 | ... | 310 | 318 | 197 | 463 | 143 | 93 | 162 | ... | 266 | 590 | 110 | 149 | 234 | 21 | ... | 26 | 183 | 9 | 434 | 21 | 18 | 37 | 210 | 84 | 42 | 5 | 32 | 65 | 13 | 223 | 8 | 33 | 562 |
Sydenham and Forest-hill | 319 | 1641 | 4770 | 744 | 438 | 226 | 215 | 161 | 226 | 206 | 13 | 261 | 412 | 106 | 604 | 183 | 171 | 41 | 2 | 81 | 671 | 164 | 124 | 227 | 3 | 6 | 47 | 380 | 8 | 177 | ... | 6 | 44 | 265 | 60 | 4 | 4 | 38 | 49 | 9 | ... | 7 | 22 | 245 |
Penge. | 257 | 2066 | 2796 | 386 | 89 | 45 | 116 | 73 | 50 | 47 | 2 | 182 | 265 | 68 | 279 | 91 | 58 | 42 | 4 | 142 | 447 | 150 | 97 | 156 | 30 | 10 | 26 | 297 | 40 | 8 | ... | 13 | 4 | 80 | 16 | 23 | 9 | 22 | 14 | 5 | ... | 2 | 7 | 701 |
Totals. | 886 | 6057 | 15977 | 1930 | 1204 | 527 | 524 | 296 | 574 | 512 | 15 | 753 | 995 | 371 | 1346 | 417 | 322 | 245 | 6 | 489 | 1708 | 424 | 370 | 617 | 54 | 16 | 99 | 860 | 57 | 619 | 21 | 37 | 85 | 555 | 160 | 69 | 18 | 92 | 128 | 27 | 223 | 17 | 62 | 1508 |