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Marylebone 1905

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

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82
REGISTER OF SANITARY WORK
Month ending 31st July, 1905.

Table: PUBLIC HEALTH DEPARTMENT.

PUBLIC HEALTH DEPARTMENT.

District Inspectors.Mr. E. Lumley, Dust Inspector.! Mr. R. Phillips, Special Duties.j 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. Gorniot, No. 4 District.Mr. W. Yeo, No. 6 District.
Public Health (London) Act.
Inspections.Dwelling Houses, &c.3436251816...............129
Tenements4213352040...............150
Underground Dwellings12...35516...............68
Dairies, Milk Shops, Cow House1069512...............42
Slaughter Houses22......3...............7
Yards, Stables, and Mews751815080110...............433
Smoke Shafts......135.........29...38
Offensive Trades and Effluvia Businesses.................................
Refuse Receptacles7512815...............47
Enquiries re non-removal of refuse5262...30............45
Removal of Bodies to Mortuary.................................
Visits to Works in progress365256225330420.........49241669
Miscellaneous Inspections495943507175......30103480
UNWHOLESOME FOOD.
Number of seizures made.................................
INFECTIOUS DISEASE:—
Cases Isolated1121........................5
Cases Removed to Hospital121847...............32
Rooms Disinfected253121415...............69
NEW DRAINAGE
Number of Plans Passed67372...............25
New Pipe Drains (feet)1970786500360791...............4407
Houses where defects in existing Drainage have been detected and remedied6532..................16