London's Pulse: Medical Officer of Health reports 1848-1972

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Acton 1898

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Acton]

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Soil pipes taken outside house-walls 4
Scullery sink waste pipes disconnected from soil drains and made
to discharge in the open air over trapped gullies 37
Rain water pipes disconnected from soil drains (dwellings) 18
Insanitary closets replaced by sanitary apparatus 56
Waste preventors provided or made good 32
Defective roofs made watertight 9
Inspection chambers constructed 41
Defective guttering repaired or replaced (dwellings) 7
Dilapidated walls, ceilings, &c., cleansed and repaired (houses) 13
Dwellings permanently closed (unfit for habitation) 6
Complaints registered 128
Notices served (supplemented by personal interviews with owners
and their agents, also by letters) 148
Damp courses added to house-walls (dwellings) 7
ORDINARY NUISANCES ABATED.
Smoke 7
Manure, offal, and other filth deposits 34
Choked drains 45
Overcrowding 8
Cellar flooding 3
Animals, Poultry, &c., 22
Dust bins 9
Cesspools abolished 3
Waste gully inlets raised above ground level (dwellings) 6
Other nuisances not included with the above 44
GENERAL INSPECTIONS.
Schools 8
Bakehouses 42
Cowsheds, milkshops and dairies 89
Slaughter houses 97
Piggeries 115
Dust shoot in contractor's brickfield 33
Stabling 53
ARTICLES OF FOOD CONDEMNED.
4 Trunks Skate
2 Cases " Kipper Herrings "
3 Trunks Haddock.
2 „ Hake.
WILLIAM T. BOVEY,
Sanitary Inspector