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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

Islington 1874

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Islington, Parish of St Mary]

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Table: TABLE X.HOUSES INSPECTED AND SANITARY IMPROVEMENTS EFFECTED, From March 30th, 1874, to March 27th, 1876.

TABLE X.

HOUSES INSPECTED AND SANITARY IMPROVEMENTS EFFECTED, From March 30th, 1874, to March 27th, 1876.

South East District.South West District.North District.Total.
Number of Houses inspected114411977183059
Re-inspections, Calls made, &c2712276411406616
Visits ot 217 Bakehouses6043852731162
Do. 72 Cohouses233211122566
Do. 103 Slaughter-houses511293123927
Do. Stables and Yards166324103
Do. Factories and Workshops28..10
Do. Fields, Lanes, &c.3096162288
Do. Factories, Horse Slaughter-houses, Piggeries, &c., Belle Isle..1662168
Total Inspections, &c.51525183256412899
IMPROVEMENTS.
Drains277337
Improved or repaired10119338332
Traps fixed899268249
CesspoolsA bolished2216
Cleansed or disinfected........
Privies and WaterPan, trap and water supply furnished..224
Pan and trap only furnished66214
Closets
W ater supply furnished1731462
Dust BinsConsturcted56314
Repaired and covers adapted92712
Surface Drains and Pavements of YardsConsturcted..1..1
Relaid1091202231
General Water Supply( New receptacles provided116724
Receptacles repaired and cleansed..1761583
Water supply provided116319
Other ImprovementsHouses generally repaired6542089
„ &c., cleansed or limewashed362290130782
„ ventilated........
Overcrowding abated..8811
Illegal use of underground Rooms for sleeping discontinued..246
Other Amendments, or Nuisances abated69240144443
Houses or Rooms Disinfected6816921248
Total Improvements95812374612656
Total Premises Improved6657933471806

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N.B. —From the30th March, 1874, to the 27th March, 1875, the Inspector of Dust visited 26 579 houses
and iound that Dust was required to be removed from 10,420 of these houses.