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Paddington 1908

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Paddington, Metropolitan Borough of]

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HOUSING. 63

TABLE 40.

Sanitary Defects Remedied in Registered Houses.

1908.1907.
Drain defective3444
„ choked93
„ untrapped72
„ unventilated or improperly ventilated2424
Manhole cover defective16
Surface inlet improperly trapped97
Gully choked96
Ventilating pipe improperly constructed13
Soilpipe defective2-
„ improperly constructed2-
„ unventilated or improperly ventilated21
Water-closet choked3920
„ defective4945
„ flushed from drinking water cistern23
„ insufficiently flushed4223
„ flushing apparatus defective3638
„ without water supply812
„ foul2018
„ improperly constructed145
„ accommodation insufficient1434
„ without door92
„ without external light or ventilation11
Rain-water pipe not disconnected from drain or soilpipe184
„ defective2422
„ choked37
Waste pipe not disconnected4-
„ defective710
„ choked-1
„ not provided33
Other drainage defects310
Cistern defective24
„ dirty7034
„ improperly placed-1
„ without proper cover1215
„ cover defective277
Dustbin defective10554
„ not provided47
„ insufficient-8
„ disused and not abolished5-
Paving defective in area or yard8589
„ „ washhouse4048
Guttering defective2112
Premises damp108
„ dirty94
Rooms verminous258345
Roof defective142.136
Accumulation of refuse342
Animals improperly kept66
Other defects or nuisances1330

Annual Cleansing.—There were 1,323 houses on the Register in March of last year, all of
which required to be inspected in connection with the "annual cleansing" which the byelaws
provide shall be carried out during the month of April of each year. Although the
work was divided among five Inspectors, it was not completed before October last. The
inspections made numbered 4,611, 2,154 rooms being reported to be in need of cleansing.
The corresponding figures for 1907 were 5,250 and 2,376. The notices served as a result of
these inspections (included in the figures given in the preceding paragraph) numbered 2,771
(2,818 in 1907), viz.: cleansing notices, 2,126; for verminous rooms, 120: and for defects of
all descriptions, 525. One hundred and forty-seven (147) cases were referred to the Solicitor,
but only 23 summonses were issued.