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Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
Kensington 1887
[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 1887.8.
| Sanitary Districts* | No. of Complaints received during the year. | J No. of Houses, Premises, &c., inspected. | No of Re-inspections of Houses, Premises, &c. | Results of Inspection. | House Drains. | Water Clo&ets. | Dust Bins. | Water Supply. | Miscellaneous. | |||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Notices 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, &o. | Ventilated. | Repaired, &c. i | Supplied with Water. | New Provided. | New Provided. | Repaired, Covered <fec. | 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. | 36 | 1440 | 922 | 335 | 94 | 62 | 77 | 48 | 111 | 150 | 1 | 23 | 69 | 30 | 79 | 25 | ... | 395 | 60 | 11 | 36 | 6 | 8 | 37 |
| N.E. | 71 | 1127 | 1365 | 387 | 241 | 136 | 191 | 11 | 206 | 94 | 2 | 9 | 36 | 2 | 32 | 9 | ... | 424 | 18 | 3 | 46 | 2 | 5 | 25 |
| Centrl | 78 | 1183 | 1944 | 314 | 271 | 131 | 146 | 49 | 25 | 231 | 19 | 28 | 39 | 14 | 23 | 14 | ... | 261 | 27 | 4 | 23 | 2 | 7 | 13 |
| South | 193 | 2098 | 1894 | 416 | 352 | 120 | 76 | 60 | 56 | 102 | 7 | 5 | 30 | 19 | 94 | 40 | ... | 629 | 259 | ... | 44 | 3 | 2 | 16 |
| Totals | 378 | 5848 | 6125 | 1452 | 958 | 449 | 490 | 168 | 398 | 577 | 29 | 65 | 174 | 65 | 228 | 88 | ... | 1709 | 364 | 18 | 149 | 13 | 22 | 91 |
* the North-West Districts lie north of the centre of Oxbridge 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.)
mP ouses were registered in 1887. The total number on the Register is, in round figures, 1,500.
| The actual complaints of neglect, made by letter, were 27.
J Inclusive of proceedings, in 26 cases, under the Food and Diugs Adulteration Act, all of the Inspectors being Inspectors under the Act; in 10 cases of
" obstructions," on and over the public ways ; and in 7 cases of disobedience of the Justices' orders.