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 1884-5.
Sanitary Districts.* | No. of Complaints received during the year. | No. of Houses, Premises, &c., inspected. | No. of Re-inspections of Houses, Premises, &c. | Results of Inspection. | House Drains. | Water-Closets. | Dust Bins. | Water Supply. | Miscellaneous. | |||||||||||||||
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Orders issued for Sanitary Amendments of Houses and Premises. | Houses, Premises, &c., Cleansed, Repaired, Whitewashed, &c. | Houses Disinfected after illness of an Infectious Character. | Repaired, Cleansed, Trapped, &c. | Ventilated. | Repaired, &c. | Supplied with Water. | New provided. | New provided. | Repaired, Covered, &c. | Cisterns (new) erected. | Cisterns Cleansed, Repaired, and Covered. | Waste-pipes connected with Drains, &c., abolished. | No. of Lodging Houses registered under 35th Section of the "Sanitary Act, 1866.' † | Dust Removal—No. of Communications received and attended to. ‡ | Removal of Accumulations of Dung, Stagnant Water, Animal and other Refuse. | Animals Removed, being improperly kept. | Regularly Inspected. | Legal Proceedings:i.e., Summonses. § | ||||||
Bakehouses. | Licensed Cowsheds. | Licensed Slaughter-houses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
N. W. | 58 | 1301 | 1338 | 470 | 112 | 56 | 66 | 57 | 59 | 115 | 5 | 33 | 57 | 13 | 78 | 8 | ... | 185 | 110 | 51 | 38 | 8 | 10 | 83 |
N.E. | 74 | 1112 | 1311 | 373 | 183 | 71 | 256 | 31 | 197 | 131 | 5 | 5 | 19 | 2 | 44 | 26 | ... | 406 | 70 | 14 | 45 | 2 | 5 | 24 |
Centrl. | 134 | 1437 | 1953 | 258 | 168 | 85 | 166 | 34 | 25 | 38 | 7 | 17 | 18 | 11 | 29 | 26 | ... | 364 | 12 | 21 | 30 | 2 | 7 | 8 |
South | 56 | 1923 | 1791 | 429 | 482 | 104 | 176 | 74 | 78 | 69 | 6 | 3 | 69 | 14 | 151 | 64 | ... | 517 | 152 | 3 | 42 | 3 | 2 | 24 |
Totals | 322 | 5773 | 6393 | 1530 | 945 | 316 | 664 | 196 | 359 | 353 | 23 | 58 | 163 | 40 | 302 | 124 | ... | 1472 | 344 | 89 | 155 | 15 | 24 | 139 |
*The North-East and North-West Districts are north of the centre of Uxbridge Road; to the East and West of Ladbroke Grove and Ladbroke Grove Road respectively: the Central and South Districts are south of Uxbridge Road. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
† This Section of the Act was not in operation in 1884-5. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
‡ The actual complaints of neglect made by letter were 58. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
§ Inclusive of proceedings, in 9 cases, under the Food and Drugs Adulteration Act, the Inspector for the North-West District being the Inspector under the Act, and in 22 cases of "obstructions, &c.," on and over the public ways. |