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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Inspectors' Report of the Sanitary Work completed in the year ended March 25th, 1878.
Sub-districts. | No. of Complaints received during the year. | No. of Houses and Premises, &c., inspected. | Results of In pection. | House Drains. | Privies and W.C.'s. | Dust Bins. | Water Supply. | Miscellaneous. | |||||||||||||||
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Orders issued for Sanitary Amendments of Houses and Premises. | Houses, Premises, &c., Cleansed, Repaired and Whitewashed. | Houses Disinfected after Infectious Diseases. | Repaired, Cleansed, &c. | Trapped or Ventilated. | Repaired, Covered, &c. | Supplied with Water. | New provided. | New provided. | Repaired, Covered, &c. | Cisterns (new) erected. | Cisterns Cleansed, Repaired and Covered. | No. of Lodging Houses registered under 35th Clause of Sanitary Acts, 1866.* | No. of Dust Complaints received and attended to. | Removal of accumulations of Dung, Stagnant Water, Animal and other Refuse. | Removal of Animals, &c., improperly kept. | Regularly Inspected. | Other Proceedings, e.g. Legal Proceedings. | ||||||
Bakehouses. | Licensed Cowhouses. | Licensed Slaughterhouses. | |||||||||||||||||||||
North. | 725 | 2587 | 691 | 647 | 152 | 227 | 93 | 104 | 114 | 14 | 41 | 115 | 22 | 127 | ... | 1850 | 84 | 74 | 69 | 19 | 21 | 15 | |
South. | 549 | 1972 | 520 | 493 | 136 | 189 | 64 | 73 | 95 | 5 | 23 | 76 | 12 | 86 | ... | 2148 | 52 | 12 | 52 | 11 | 10 | 3 | |
Total. | 1274 | 4559 | 1211 | 1140 | 288 | 416 | 157 | 177 | 209 | 19 | 64 | 191 | 44 | 213 | ... | 3998 | 136 | 86 | 121 | 30 | 31 | 18 |
* This Act has not been put into operation.