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Holborn 1900

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

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Table: SANITARY WORK. The following is an abstract of Nuisances abated and Sanitary Work accomplished during the year ending December 31st, 1900.

SANITARY WORK. The following is an abstract of Nuisances abated and Sanitary Work accomplished during the year ending December 31st, 1900.

Inspector Bennett.Inspector McQuinn.Inspector Freeman.Total
Written complaints received attention642321108
Premises inspected and reinspected3,0142,7722,8608,646
Preliminary Notices served for the abatement of Nuisances1458163289
Statutory Notices do.1412632
Houses have been cleaned, repaired, limewhited, &c.213230284724
Houses have had their overcrowding abated1315623192
Underground rooms illegally and separately occupied have been closed143017
Rooms disinfected and cleansed after infectious disease1389753278
New drains have been laid802360163
Drains repaired, ventilated, &c.28181662
Waterclosets reconstructed12835137300
New waterclosets constructed205076146
Waterclosets cleansed and repaired120165132417
Waterclosets supplied with water21256164432
Houses supplied with water for domestic purposes after water being cut off63413
Yards repaved and repaired39121475
Dustbins repaired and provided2817624428
Accumulations of offensive refuse have been removed2874580
Bakehouses inspected twice during year145221
Notices received for the removal of dust———630
Houses registered as " Houses let in lodgings" inspected monthly3128867

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Also a considerable amount of Sanitary Work has been done in the District such as new
buildings, etc., without notices being served.

Table: THE MEAT MARKET. The Meat Market is in the Parish of St. Sepulchre, now in the Metropolitan Borough of Finsbury. During the past five years the amount of meat seized, offal excluded, was:—

THE MEAT MARKET. The Meat Market is in the Parish of St. Sepulchre, now in the Metropolitan Borough of Finsbury. During the past five years the amount of meat seized, offal excluded, was:—

YEAR.Diseased.Decomposed.Total.
Stones.Lbs.Stones.Lbs.Stones.Lbs.
1st Quarter40693378444477
2nd ,,71011215419255
3rd ,,65363476441302
4th „17015311320130
Total for the year 18967134753817125166
Total for the year 1897188122331042122
Total for the year 18981012633161½45287½
Total for the year 189988863101439902
1900. 1st Quarter33702103580
2nd „6533739713932
3rd „54042744814
4th ,,205342726325
Total for the year 1900124961615528653

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These figures show the marked change that has been effected in the Meat Market; the amount
of diseased meat " seized " in 1897 being little more than a quarter of that of the previous year;
in 1898 the amount was less than one-fourth of that " seized " in the first quarter of 1896, and in
1899 still less.