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Willesden 1893
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Willesden]
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Sanitary Report, 1893.
The following four tables have been supplied in
order to assist in the compilation of the Middlesex
County Council Annual Report.
T able N o. 1.
| Complaints received | 722 |
| Cases of Infectious Diseases notified | 1035 |
| House inspection, from house to house | 2104 |
| Premises periodically inspected | 282 |
| Total number of Inspections | |
| Total number of Re-inspections after order of notice | 5216 |
| Letters written | 1020 |
| Cautioning Notices given | 625 |
| Statutory Orders issued | 261 |
| Summonses served | 6 |
| Convictions obtained | 5 |
| Houses and Premises cleaned and repaired | 29 |
| Houses let in separate dwellings registered | 320 |
| Number registered | 4 |
| Canal Boats inspected | 105 |
| Number of Contraventions | 29 |
| Movable Tents, Caravans, Ac. observed | 45 |
| Ditto removed from district | 45 |
Table No . 2.
| Cisterns, new, provided | 8 |
| Cisterns cleaned, repaired, and covered | 37 |
| Flush Cisterns provided to w.c.'s | 106 |
| Water Closets, new, constructed | 22 |
| Ditto new apparatus provided | 62 |
| Ditto repaired and cleaned | 26 |
| Ditto supplied with water | 280 |
| Percentage of Houses supplied with w.c.'s | All. |
| Drains examined, tested, &c. | 305 |
| Ditto repaired and trapped | 127 |
| Waste Pipes disconnected | 26 |
| Soil Pipes and Drains ventilated | 10 |
| Ditto reconstructed | 68 |
| Ditto new laid | 35 |
| Cesspools abolished | 2 |