Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for St. Pancras, Metropolitan Borough]
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therefrom, and it is the intention of your Sanitary Committee to proceed with
the enforcement of them so soon as time will allow ; but owing to the pressure
of other business, and the engagement of one of the Inspectors of Nuisances as
temporary Coroner's Beadle, these works have lately been in great part suspended.
TABLE B. MORTALITY IN MEWS.
Names of Mews. | No. of inhabited stables. | |No. of Inhabitants | No. of deaths in 1858._ | Death-rate in 1858 per 1000. | Deaths in 1856, 1857, and 1858. | Remarks on the condition of the Stables and Dwelling-rooms. | ||
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Tottenham Court Sub-District. | Charlotte Mews | .. | .. | 1 | .. | 3 | ||
Chenies Mews, Upper | 22 | 85 | 3 | 35 | 8 | Stables badly paved and drained; rooms badly ventilated. | ||
Cleveland Mews | 6 | 27 | .. | .. | .. | Ventilation and drainage defective. | ||
Conway Mews | 5 | 24 | • • | • • | 2 | Stables badly paved and drained; ventilation bad. | ||
Crescent Mews North . | 7 | 26 | 1 | . . | 7 | Arrangements bad. | ||
Ditto, South | . . | 120 | 8 | 64 | 15 | Arrangements bad. | ||
Fitzroy or HertfordMews | 3 | 10 | . , | Tolerably good. | ||||
Ditto, West | 11 | 42 | .. | .. | .. | Ventilation bad; stables badly drained. | ||
Gower Mews Upper | 21 | 94 | • • | • • | 2 | Paving and drainage in some stables good; in some bad; ventilation also in many bad. | ||
Grafton Mews | 10 | 41 | 2 | 48 | 4 | For the most part bad. | ||
Howland Mews, West | 5 | 23 | 1 | 43 | 4 | Stables badly paved and drained; rooms badly ventilated. | ||
London Mews | 6 | 23 | • • | .. | 1 | Some badly paved and drained, and badly ventilated. | ||
Regenfa Park Sub-District. | North Street Mews | 1 | 5 | .. | .. | 1 | Arrangements tolerably good. | |
Percy Mews | 1 | 2 | .. | .. | 1 | Badly ventilated. | ||
Russell Mews | 7 | 24 | 1 | 41 | 2 | Arrangements bad. | ||
Richardson's Mews | 5 | 22 | 2 | 99 | 4 | Ditto. | ||
Stephen Mews | .. | .. | .. | .. | 1 | |||
Thorhaugh Mews | 2 | 6 | .. | .. | .. | Arrangements bad. | ||
Tottenham Mews | .. | .. | 1 | .. | 3 | |||
Warren Mews | 6 | 29 | 1 | 34 | 1 | Arrangements bad. | ||
Albert Mews, Albert | .. | |||||||
Terrace | 9 | . . | . . | .. | 1 | |||
Cambridge Mews | 37 | 37 | 2 | 54 | 4 | |||
Chester Mews | .. | 172 | 2 | 12 | 5 | |||
Early Mews | 11 | .. | 1 | .. | 2 | |||
Frederick Mews | .. | 51 | 1 | 19 | 3 | Several stables very bad. | ||
Raneleigh Mews | 11 | .. | 2 | .. | 2 | |||
Robert Mews | .. | 42 | 4 | 95 | 5 | Drainage bad in 6; ventilation in 9 stables. | ||
William Mews | .. | 65 | • • | • • | 4 | Arrangements bad. | ||
Gray's Inn Sub-District. | Brownlow Mews | .. | 70 | 1 | 14 | 1 | ||
Lansdown Mews | .. | 10 | .. | .. | .. | Arrangements good. | ||
New Millman Mews | .. | 62 | .. | .. | 1 | |||
Sidmouth Mews | .. | 92 | ||||||
Regent's-square Mews | .. | 17 | 1 | 58 | 2 | |||
Wakefield Mews | .. | 67 | 1 | 15 | 2 | |||
Doughty Mews | 17 | 63 | • • | • • | 4 | Arrangements good in many; drainage of some bad. | ||
Somers Town bub-District. | Drummond Mews | .. | .. | .. | .. | 3 | ||
Euston Mews | 12 | 53 | 1 | .. | 6 | Drainage defective and ventilation. | ||
Frederick Mews | 16 | 51 | .. | 2 | ||||
Grenville Mews | .. | .. | 2 | .. | 4 | |||
Railway Mews | .. | .. | 1 | .. | 2 | |||
Seymour Row Mews | 5 | 23 | 1 | .. | 1 | Drainage bad; ventilation wanting. | ||
Kentish Town Sub-District. | Southampton Mews | 11 | 51 | 1 | .. | 6 | Ventilation and drainage. | |
Camden Mews | .. | .. | .. | .. | 2 | |||
Rochester Mews | .. | .. | 1 | .. | 4 | |||
Torriano Mews | .. | .. | 1 | .. | 2 |