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 1885-6.
Sanitary Districts.1 | 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. | I 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 : | ||||||
Bakehouses. | Licensed Cowsheds. | Licensed Slaughter-houses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
N.W. | 38 | 1347 | 1156 | 392 | 130 | 37 | 101 | 33 | 53 | 90 | 7 | 33 | 25 | 30 | 52 | 17 | 79 | 295 | 121 | 20 | 39 | 7 | 9 | 62 |
N.E. | 61 | 1177 | 1115 | 360 | 244 | 46 | 185 | 8 | 240 | 143 | 1 | 3 | 37 | 5 | 83 | 11 | 11 | 515 | 68 | 6 | 47 | 2 | 5 | 30 |
Centrl. | 79 | 1595 | 1679 | 279 | 218 | 52 | 198 | 68 | 32 | 77 | 10 | 14 | 19 | 6 | 22 | 20 | 55 | 388 | 20 | 4 | 24 | 2 | 7 | 16 |
South | 112 | 2302 | 2095 | 424 | 456 | 68 | 99 | 84 | 61 | 66 | 1 | 7 | 42 | 22 | 64 | 50 | 65 | 734 | 191 | 42 | 44 | 3 | 2 | 26 |
Totals | 290 | 6421 | 6045 | 1455 | 1048 | 203 | 583 | 193 | 386 | 376 | 19 | 57 | 123 | 63 | 221 | 98 | 210 | 1932 | 400 | 72 | 154 | 14 | 23 | 134 |
* The North-East and North-West Districts lie north of the centre of Uxbridge Road; to the East and West of Ladbroke Grove and Ladbroke Grove Road respectively
(North Kensington): the Central and South Districts are south of Uxbridge Road (South Kensington).
† The actual complaints of neglect made by letter were 19.
‡ Inclusive of proceedings, in 48 cases, under the Food and Drugs Adulteration Act, all the Inspectors being Inspectors under the Act, and in 20 cases of "obstructions,"
&c., on and over the public ways.