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St George (Southwark) 1857
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Southwark, The Vestry of the Parish of St. George the Martyr]
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Parish of Saint George the Martyr, Southwark.
Report of the Medical Officer of Health, for the second Quarter, 1857.
TABLE 7.
| Cases | Number of Houses or Places visited | Number of Visits of Medical Officer and Inspector | Premises unclean, or dilapidated within | Overcrowded | Unfit for habitation | Insufficient Ventilation | Water | Water receptacle none, bad, or without cover | Bad Drainage | Foul Cesspool | Water Closet defective, or without Water | Yard badly paved | Refuse accumulated | Dustbin, none or imperfect | Nuisances from animals badly kept | Slaughter-houses, Manufactories in unwholesome state | Burial Vaults requiring improvement | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Deficient | No supply | ||||||||||||||||||
| 142 | 211 | about 850 | 35 | 6 | 1 | 10 | 5 | 8 | 18 | 144 | 132 | 27 | 49 | 8 | 75 | 13 | 2 | 3 | |
| Work completed | 73 | 88 | . | 21 | 6 | 1 | 8 | 2 | 5 | 14 | 46 | 42 | 13 | 9 | 5 | 19 | 5 | . | . |
| Not begun, or left unfinished | 69 | 123 | . | 14 | . | . | 2 | 3 | 3 | 4 | 98 | 90 | 14 | 40 | 3 | 56 | 8 | 2 | 3 |
| The following are old cases reported last year :— | 23 and 24, London-street | F.N. | 20 | 4 | 57 | ||||
| Mr. Able, Bone-boiler, Green-street—Mr. Ray, Bone-boiler, Green-street.-34 Little Duke-street. | O.N. | 16 | 5 | 57 | |||||
| The following from the fourth quarterly report:— | 34, Bean-street | F.N. | 57 | ||||||
| 4, Potier's-place, | F.N. | 30 | 4 | 57 | |||||
| John's-place, London-street-6 to 11, Spiller's-court-34, King-street, Borough-road. | O.N. | 12 | 6 | 57 | |||||
| Do. (Second) | O.N. | 27 | 6 | 57 | |||||
| The following from the last or fifth quarterly report:— | 1, 2, 4, 5, 6, and 7, Delph-street | O.N. | 1 | 5 | 57 | ||||
| King's Arms, Old Kent-road—Ditto two other cases—5, Walker-street, Kent-street 12, Bath stree- 80½ Friar-street, (Dairy)-l, 2, 3, 4, and 6, Walker-street, Kent-street 4, Union-street, Borough road—75, Kent-street, (Dairy) —5, Potier-street— 33, Staple-street—27, 28, St. George's-place, White-street. | 32, Staple-street | O.N. | 1 | 5 | 57 | ||||
| 1 and 2, White Horse-yard | F.N. | 4 | 5 | 57 | |||||
| O.N. | 6 | 57 | |||||||
| Kent-street | O.N. | 5 | 57 | ||||||
| The following are cases taken in hand during this (the sixth) quarter, and not reported as finished at the end of the quarter:- | ??? Green-street | „ | |||||||
| Date | 10, Green-street | F.N. | 11 | 5 | 57 | ||||
| Dairy, White-street | F.N. | 4 | 4 | 57 | O.N. | 18 | 5 | 57 | |
| O.N. | 1 | 5 | 57 | 39 and 40, White-street | O.N. | 14 | 5 | 57 | |
| Do. Summons | 19 | 57 | Do. (Second) | O.N. | 27 | 6 | 57 | ||
| Caroline-crescent | F.N. | 6 | 4 | 57 | 43, White-street | O.N. | 14 | 5 | 57 |
| O.N. | 18 | 4 | 57 | 90, Webber-row | F.N. | 13 | 5 | 57 | |
| 2, Providence-place, Market-street | F.N. | 8 | 4 | 57 | 89, Webber-row | O.N. | 12 | 6 | 57 |
| 3 and 4, Providence-place, Market-street | F.N. | 8 | 4 | 57 | Do. (Second) | O.N. | 29 | 6 | 57 |
| O.N. | 27 | 6 | 57 | 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, and 9, Castle-yard | F.N. | 21 | 5 | 57 | |
| 24, Market-street | F.N. | 8 | 4 | 57 | 14½, King's Bench-walk, (Bone-boiler) | F.N. | 21 | 5 | 57 |
| O.N. | 27 | 6 | 57 | O.N. | 13 | 6 | 57 | ||
| 25, Market-street | F.N. | 8 | 4 | 57 | 1, 2, 3, and 7, Hendre-terrace | F.N. | 21 | 5 | 57 |
| 27, and 28, Market-street | F.N. | 8 | 4 | 57 | 127, High-street | F.N. | 2 | 6 | 57 |
| O.N. | 27 | 6 | 57 | O.N. | 27 | 6 | 57 | ||
| 1, 2, 3, 4, and 5, St. George's-passage, Market-street | F.N. | 9 | 4 | 57 | 77, Borough-road | F.N. | 3 | 6 | 57 |
| 29 and 30, Market-street | F.N. | 9 | 4 | 57 | O.N. | 7 | 6 | 57 | |
| O.N. | 27 | 6 | 57 | 86, Borough-road | F.N. | 6 | 6 | 57 | |
| 31, Market-street | F.N. | 8 | 4 | 57 | 6, George-street | F.N. | 3 | 6 | 57 |
| 32, Market-street | F.N. | 8 | 4 | 57 | 75, St. George's-road, Cow Shed | F.N. | 12 | 6 | 57 |
| O.N. | 27 | 6 | 57 | 27, Valentine-place, Cow Shed | „ | ||||
| 33, Market-street | F.N. | 8 | 4 | 57 | 33, Gray-street, Cow Shed | „ | |||
| O.N. | 11 | 7 | 57 | St. George's Market, Cow Shed | O.N. | 11 | 7 | 57 | |
| 36, 37, 38, and 39, Market-street | F.N. | 9 | 4 | 57 | Skin Market, Cow Shed | F.N. | 12 | 6 | 57 |
| O.N. | 27 | 6 | 57 | George-street, Cow Yard | „ | ||||
| 1, 2, 3, 4, and 7, Parliament-street, Market-street | F.N. | 9 | 4 | 57 | 5, Red Cross-street, Cow Yard | „ | |||
| O.N. | 27 | 6 | 57 | Southwark Bridge-road | F.N. | 17 | 6 | 57 | |
| 5 and 6, Parliament-street | F.N. | 9 | 4 | 57 | Red Cross-court, Open Space | F.N. | 19 | 6 | 57 |
| 46, Market-street—l7, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, and 26, Butcher-row, Market-street | F.N. | 9 | 4 | 57 | 78, Borough-road | „ | |||
| O.N. | 27 | 57 | 99, London-road | ||||||
| 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, and 14, Butcher-row, Market-street | F.N. | 9 | 4 | 57 | 92, St. George's-road | „ | |||
| 15 and 16, Butcher-row, Market-street | F.N. | 9 | 4 | 57 | 29, London-road | F.N. | 20 | 6 | 57 |
| O.N. | 27 | 57 | O.N. | 11 | 7 | 57 | |||
| 15 and 16, Butcher-row, Market-street | F.N. | 9 | 4 | 57 | Northampton-row, Old Kent-road | F.N. | 22 | 6 | 57 |
| O.N. | 27 | 6 | 57 | Dover-place, West | F.N. | 22 | 6 | 57 | |
| 25, 26, 27, and 28, York-street | F.N. | 17 | 4 | 57 | O.N. | 11 | 7 | 57 | |
| O.N. | 18 | 5 | 57 | King's Arms-yard, Cottage | F.N. | 22 | 6 | 57 | |
| 10, Rodney-street | O.N. | 18 | 4 | 57 | O.N. | 11 | 7 | 57 | |
| 36, Waterloo-road | F.N. | 17 | 4 | 57 | 47, Wellington-street | F.N. | 26 | 6 | 57 |
| O.N. | 1 | 5 | 57 | ||||||