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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

Marylebone 1904

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for St. Marylebone, Metropolitan Borough]

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47
REGISTER OF SANITARY WORK
Month ending 30th April, 1904.

Table: PUBLIC HEALTH DEPARTMENT.

PUBLIC HEALTH DEPARTMENT.

District Inspectors.Mr. E. Lumley, Dust Inspector.Mr. R. Phillips, Special Duties,Miss F. A. Baker.Total.
Mr. J. Hodges, No. 1 District.Mr. A. Perry, No. 2 District.Mr. D. J. Andrews. No. 3 District.Mr. T. Gormiot, No. 4 District.Mr. W. Yeo, No. 5 District.
Public Health (London) Act.
Inspections.Dwelling Houses, &c4236453538...............186
Tenements3029351628...............138
Underground Dwellings10915816...............58
Dairies, Milk Shops, Cow Houses63259...............25
Slaughter Houses22......1...............5
Yards, Stables, and Mews3739354649.........2...208
Smoke Shafts........................4...4
Offensive Trades and Effluvia Businesses........................1...1
Refuse Receptacles42...3......18...2...29
Enquiries re non-removal of refuse34534...350......3372
Removal of Bodies to Mortuary.................................
Visits to Works in progress170193160220149............5897
Miscellaneous Inspections \84716018079............63537
UNWHOLESOME FOOD.
Number of seizures made.........1..................1
INFECTIOUS DISEASE:—
Cases Isolated29...1..................12
Cases Removed to Hospital621059...............32
Rooms Disinfected11612817...............54
NEW DRAINAGE
Number of Plans Passed4781410.........2...45
New Pipe Drains (feet)6005465008901614...............4150
Houses where defects in existing Drainage have been detected and remedied18667...............34