Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Kensington]
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REPORT
OF PROCEEDINGS UNDER
THE NUISANCES REMOVAL ACT,
DISTRICTS. | |||
---|---|---|---|
North. | South. | Total. | |
Number of Houses inspected | 1297 | 1322 | 2619 |
Complaints made | 483 | 530 | 1013 |
Notices prepared and served | 609 | 672 | 1281 |
Summonses heard at Police Court | 60 | 49 | 109 |
Magistrates' Orders made | 28 | 21 | 49 |
Works done under Summons without order | 32 | 28 | 60 |
Rooms cleansed and whitewashed | 583 | 617 | 1200 |
Passages and staircases ditto | 183 | 224 | 407 |
Drains—New pipes to houses, feet about | 390 | 325 | 715 |
„ Repaired | 164 | 194 | 358 |
„ Cleansed | 70 | 65 | 135 |
„ Trapped | 51 | 47 | 98 |
„ New bell Gratings | 50 | 63 | 113 |
„ Entered with Sewer | 49 | 41 | 90 |
Sinks—Trapped | 34 | 50 | 84 |
Cesspools—Emptied | 9 | 15 | 24 |
„ Abolished | 7 | 11 | 18 |
Privies—New panned | 24 | 19 | 43 |
„ Trapped | 27 | 35 | 62 |
„ Cleansed and Repaired | 75 | 62 | 137 |
„ Dilapidated—one abolished | 7 | 9 | 16 |
„ New erected | 8 | 13 | 21 |
„ Supplied with water | 114 | 94 | 208 |
Houses supplied with water | 14 | 17 | 31 |
New covers to Cisterns and Butts | 23 | 18 | 41 |
New Reccptacles for waste provided | 21 | 17 | 38 |
Ventilation of houses improved | 19 | 14 | 33 |
Yards re-paved and repaired | 28 | 22 | 50 |
Stables and outhouses cleansed and whitewashed | 29 | 20 | 49 |
Cows removed | 0 | 16 | 16 |
Cow sheds abolished | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Pigs removed | 96 | 52 | 148 |
Styes abolished | 17 | 8 | 25 |
New Dustbins erected | 18 | 12 | 30 |
New Dungpits erected | 27 | 33 | 60 |
Offensive accumulations of dung removed | 81 | 98 | 179 |