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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
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.
TABLE 7.—Sanitary Inspections during the Quarter ending 31st March, 1857.
| 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 | Without Water | Water receptacle none, bad, or without cover | Bad Drainage | Foul Cesspool | Water Closet without Water | Yard badly paved | Without Dust-bin | Nuisances from animals badly kept | ! Slaughter-houses, Manufactories in unwholesome state | Burial Vaults requiring improvement | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 78 | 129 | about 650 | 29 | 1 | 19 | 16 | • | 12 | 72 | 59 | 36 | 17 | 30 | 3 | 6 | 3 | ||
| Work completed. | 47 | 81 | • | 20 | 1 | 14 | 3 | • | 5 | 52 | 35 | 19 | 5 | 18 | • | 2 | • | |
| Not begun, or left unfinished | 31 | 48 | • | 9 | • | 5 | 13 | • | 7 | 20 | 24 | 17 | 12 | 12 | 3 | 4 | 3 | |
| Names of Places, and Dates of Official or Friendly Notices are annexed, in which the Work ordered leas not completed at the end of the Quarter. The following 9 Cases were reported as unfinished in last Quarterly report:—John's Place, London St.—6 to 11 Spillers' Court—97, Blackfriars Road— 10, Rodney St.—41 & 42, Etham St.—King's Arms, Bath St.—34, King's St., Boro' Road—21, Little Surrey St.—24, Bond St. | ||||||||||||||||||
| King's Arms Yard, Old Kent Rd. | O.N. 21/1/57 | 4, Union St. | 2nd O.N. 4/3/57 | 133½, Gt. Suffolk St | F.N. 23/3/57 | |||||||||||||
| Do.—2 other Cases | 2nd O.N. 13/3/57 | Parochial School, Boro' Rd. | F.N. 11/3/57 | O.N. 4/4/57 | ||||||||||||||
| 10& 11, Pitt St., Old Kent Rd | O.N. 13/3/57 | 27 & 28, St. George's Place White St. | F.N. 11/3/57 | 1, Amicable Row | F.N. 23/3/57 | |||||||||||||
| 5, Walker St., Kent St. | O.N. 16/3/57 | Galloway's Dairy, 75, Kent St. | F N 23/3/57 | |||||||||||||||
| 1, 2, 3, 4, 6, Do. | O.N. 13/3/57 | 3 to 10, Wurtemburg Place Blackfriars Rd. | F.N. 17/3/57 | O.N. 78/4/57 | ||||||||||||||
| 33, Staple St. | O.N. 13/3/57 | O.N. 18/4/57 | 6 & 8, Red Cross Ct. | F.N. 23/3/57 | ||||||||||||||
| 5, Potier St. | O.N. 13/3/57 | 8, Red Cross Court | F.N. 18/3/57 | O.N 18/4/57 | ||||||||||||||
| Elizabeth's Place, Nos. 1,3,4,6, | F.N. 10/4/57 | O.N. 18/4/57 | 28, Langsdowne Place | F.N. 25/3/57 | ||||||||||||||
| 7, 8,9,10,11,12,14,15,16 | O.N. 4/4/57 | 23, Friar St. | O.N. 10/3/57 | O.N. 1/5/57 | ||||||||||||||
| 11 & 12 Moreton St. | O.N. 13/3/57 | 80½, Friar St., Dairy | F.N. 23/3/57 | 3, Brighton Place | F.N. 26/3.57 | |||||||||||||
| 12, Bath St. | F.N. 19/2/57 | O.N. 18/4/57 | O.N. 18/4/57 | |||||||||||||||
| 4, Union St. | O.N. 4/3/57 | |||||||||||||||||