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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

Newington 1897

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Newington]

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Table: TABLE 12.Summary of Sanitary Work carried out during 1896.

TABLE 12.

Summary of Sanitary Work carried out during 1896.

ward.Number of Entries in the Sanitary Works Register.Number of Entries in the Dust Con:plaint Book.Blocked or defective drains remedied.Drains reconstructed or Intt-rceptcrs. &c., provided.Closets repaired, Apparatus, Water, &c., provided.Yards paved. Paving repaired Gullies, &c., provided.Sinks and Rain-pipes disconnected or altered, or traps provided.Roofs, Gutters and Rain, pipes repaired.Dust-bins provided or repaired.Foul Rooms, &c., cleansed and whitewashed.Nuisances from Urinals, Manure, Animals, &c. abated or receptacles providedClosets rebuilt or additional ones provided.Surface drains provided.Ventilation under Floors to Rooms, &c., provided.Dry Areas provided or extended.Nuisances from Overcrowding abated.Number of Prosecutions.
St. Mary15023331091677475564271101887651261015126281132
St. Paul14312448210167266040433923037916781716425319
St. Peter139032897152664734142352190121210644256101619
St. John2365272572789035554437518278487210266286328
Trinity1970227123223104283934926633210722083948325381033
Total8658140446892140283344176511421122421269463941137129103131

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Water laid on to houses (after supply had been withdrawn):—
St. Mary, 1; St. Paul, 5 ; St. Peter, 1 ; St. John, 1 ; and Trinity, 7 Total 15
Infected rooms whitewashed and disinfected 1087 Slaughter and cow-houses inspected 13
Beds, palliasses, bolsters, pillows, &c., disinfected at Depot 9722 Bakehouses inspected 75
Beds, palliasses, bolsters, pillows, &c., destroyed at Depot 268 Number of bodies received into Mortuary 165