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Whitechapel 1884
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Whitechapel]
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Table P.—VACCINATION STATISTICS. For the Quarter ended January 5th, 1885.
| Certificates of successful Vaccination registered by the Vaccination Officer:- | ||||
| Born in the Union | 591 | |||
| Resident, but born elsewhere | 196 | |||
| 787 | ||||
| Vaccination... | Primary | Public Vaccinator | 320 | |
| Superintendt. Infirmary | 32 | |||
| 352 | ||||
| Re-Vaccination | Public Vaccinator | 11 | ||
| Superintendt. Infirmary | 238 | |||
| 249 | ||||
Table G.—Sanitary Work performed by the Inspectors during the Quarter ended January 3rd, 1885.
| Number. | |
|---|---|
| Numbers of Inspections of Houses as shewn in the Official Returns | 1938 |
| Houses specially visited | 314 |
| „ „ re-visited | 1376 |
| Preliminary Notices served, such Notices embracing 365 premises | 3 83 |
| Compulsory Orders issued, embracing 293 premises | 170 |
| Summonses heard at Police Court under Sanitary Act | 2 |
| „ under Act for the Prevention of Adulteration of Food, &c. | 1 |
| Cellars used as dwellings discontinued for such use | 8 |
| Cases of overcrowding and indecent occupation abated | 5 |
| Houses in which rooms or passages have been whitewashed | 181 |
| Rooms disinfected with sulphurous acid gas after the occurrence of small-pox, fever, and scarlet-fever therein | 143 |
| Articles consisting of beds, bedding, clothing, &c , removed from rooms to the stone-yard and disinfected in the apparatus | 3761 |
| Articles burnt by consent | 29 |
| Yards of houses paved or the pavement repaired | 87 |
| Drains in houses improved | 81 |
| Dust bins provided | 47 |
| Privies lime-washed, cleansed and repaired | 179 |
| Water-supply provided or improved | 32 |
| Nuisances from dung and other offensive matter removed | 31 |
| Area gratings, cellar flaps, &c., repaired | 0 |
| Places closed by consent, being unfit for human habitation | 1 |
| Cow-houses visited in the District | 21 |
| Slaughter-houses visited in the District | 13 |
| Bakehouses visited in the District | 41 |
| Fowls kept so as to constitute a nuisance | 24 |
In addition to this Return, the Inspectors report that they have forwarded to the
Metropolitan Board of Works several notices of dangerous structures, which notices
the Metropolitan Board have promptly attended to.
Twenty-five samples under the Food and Drugs Act, were submitted to the
Public Analyst and several were found to be adulterated. In these cases the vendors
were cautioned by the Inspectors. As they were first offences no summonses were
applied for.
A trade nuisance arising from the drying of damaged pepper upon premises at
No. 18, Gun Street, has been abated.