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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TABLE VI.
Inspectors' Report of the Sanitary Work completed in the year ended March 25th, 1879.
| Sub-districts. | No. of Complaints received during the year. | No. of Houses and Premises, &c., inspected. | Results of luspection. | House Drains. | Privies and W.C.'s. | Dust Bins. | W ater Supply. | Miscellaneous. | ||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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. | Repaire 1, 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, &e., improperly kept. | Regularly Inspected. | Other Proceedings, e.g. Legal Proceedings. | |||||
| Bakehouses. | Licensed Cowsheds. | Licensed Slaughter-houses. | ||||||||||||||||||||
| N.W. | 512 | 1202 | 485 | 408 | 24 | 176 | 114 | 62 | 81 | 4 | 32 | 53 | 8 | 66 | ... | 1222 | 74 | 32 | 34 | 10 | 11 | 26 |
| N.E. | 473 | 1252 | 446 | 373 | 32 | 119 | 62 | 33 | 52 | 2 | 27 | 61 | 6 | 79 | ... | 917 | 56 | 17 | 42 | 8 | 9 | 4 |
| Centrl. | 412 | 1142 | 400 | 263 | 29 | 97 | 59 | 45 | 49 | 3 | 29 | 45 | 16 | 52 | ... | 852 | 60 | 11 | 27 | 4 | 7 | 6 |
| South | 439 | 1164 | 416 | 295 | 98 | 112 | 84 | 52 | 63 | 4 | 38 | 62 | 19 | 71 | ... | 1055 | 52 | 3 | 22 | 4 | 2 | 4 |
| Totals | 1836 | 4760 | 1747 | 1339 | 183 | 504 | 319 | 192 | 245 | 13 | 126 | 221 | 49 | 268 | ... | 4046 | 242 | 63 | 125 | 26 | 29 | 40 |
* This Act has not been put into operation.