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St Pancras 1867
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for St. Pancras, Metropolitan Borough]
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RETURN, shewing the Works executed and Improvements effected in the Parish of St. Pancras, under the supervision of the Sanitary Officers during the year ending 31st December, 18G7.
| Overcrowding abated | Bakehouse cleansed or cleansed and whitewashed | Cesspools abolished | Houses cleansed, repaired, &c. | Drains. | New drains laid | Water Closets. | New Water closets erected | New cisterns or water butts provided | Cisterns or water butts repaired | Paving of kitchens, yards, areas, &c., new or relaid | Receptacles for dung provided | Manure removed | Dustbins | Totals | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Trapped | Improved by repairs. | Repaired | Water supply provided | New | Repairs | |||||||||||||
| W.Rouch (from July 1,6 months)5 | 2 | 7 | 18 | 28 | 81 | 36 | 31 | 21 | 48 | 2 | 16 | 4 | 15 | 10 | 29 | 26 | 9 | 383 |
| T. Curtis | 2 | 8 | 9 | 199 | 74 | 63 | 42 | 57 | 137 | 2 | 2 | 39 | 27 | 5 | 16 | 12 | 22 | 716 |
| J. Hartley | 12 | 8 | 15 | 214 | 83 | 49 | 34 | 94 | 206 | 7 | 5 | 31 | 34 | 1 | 34 | 78 | 33 | 938 |
| 16 | 23 | 42 | 441 | 238 | 148 | 107 | 172 | 391 | 11 | 23 | 74 | 76 | 16 | 79 | 116 | 64 | 2037 | |
Tn addition to the above, various other Works have been carried out, to the number of 56, the most important of which were for improvements of Ventilation, supply of Water for
domestic purposes, closing of Houses unfit for human habitation, the destruction or disinfection of Bedding and Clothes. The number of notices served in respect of these Works is 1184
1039 primary ; 175 final. The number of Summonses and Magistrates' Orders obtained to enforce the Works is 116 75 Summonses, 41 Orders.
All the Markets are visited thrice per week at least. The Slaughter Houses, numbering 97, and Cow Houses, numbering 77, have each been inspected monthly or oftener • Bakehouses
half-yearly. The day and hour of inspection is left to the discretion of the Inspector.
As time admits or necessity requires, Courts, Mews, Wharves, Stables, the premises occupied by Marine Store Dealers, Fat Melters, Tripe Dressers, Sausage Makers; also Fried
Fish Shops, Butchers' Shops, and Stalls for the sale of Meat, Fish, Vegetables, or Fruit, are inspected.
The seizures of unsound food exposed for sale have been of Fish,—31½ pads, 3 rounds, 3 boxes, 3 barrels, 3 parcels, and 2 flats of Plaice; 4 barrels, 14 boxes, 5 kits, 4 baskets, 1 parcel
Of herrings; 1 barrel 1 trunk 1 box, and 1 parcel of Haddocks; 11 pads of Mackerel; 3 barrels 1 box 1 bushel of Sprats; 7 pads and a parcel of mixed Fish: 2 barrels of Gurnet; a'parcel of
Cod; 1 box of Soles; 1 parcel of Hake ; and a sack of Oysters Of Meat,—3 cwt. of Beef, Mutton, and Pork. Of Fruit,—2 bushels of Damsons; 2 bushels of Apples ; 5 baskets, 1 bushel
2 molleys of Cherries; 2 boxes and 1 basket of Grapes; 1 barrow-load, 1 box, and a lot of (200) Cocoa Nuts. Of Rabbits, 6 parcels, 1 barrow, and 2 boxes. Also, several lots of Fish and
Fruit in smaller quantities.
At the Petty Sessions in October, six new applications were received from Cow Keepers for Licenses ; five were granted ; and one, which the Vestry opposed on account of its being
not paved, drained, or properly ventilated, was refused. Six new applications were also received from Butchers for Slaughterhouse Licenses, five of which were refused by the Justices and
One was Withdrawn.
W. J. LEACH,
6tli June, 1868. Clerk to the Sanitary Committee.