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Whitechapel 1884
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Whitechapel]
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T able F.—VACCINATION STATISTICS.
For the Year ended January 5tli, 1885.
Certificates of successful Vaccination registered by the Vaccination Officer
| Born in the Union | 2412 | |||
| Resident, but born elsewhere | 576 | |||
| _ | 2988 | |||
| Vaccination. | Primary | Public Vaccinator | 1807 | |
| Superintends Infirmary | 133 | |||
| 1940 | ||||
| Re-Vaccination | Public Vaccinator | .1017 | ||
| Superintends Infirmary | . 922 | |||
| 1939 | ||||
| Returned as "Insusceptible" | 1 | |||
Table G.—Sanitary Work performed by the Inspectors during the Year 1884.
| Number. | |
|---|---|
| Numbers of Inspections of Houses as shewn in the Official Returns | 10555 |
| Houses specially visited | 1283 |
| „ „ re-visited | 5142 |
| Preliminary Notices served, such Notices embracing 1647 premises | 1209 |
| Compulsory Orders issued, embracing 504 premises. | 275 |
| Summonses heard at Police Court under Sanitary Act | 6 |
| „ under Act for the Prevention of Adulteration of Food, &c.... | 10 |
| Cellars used as dwellings discontinued for such use | 29 |
| Cases of overcrowding and indecent occupation abated | 14 |
| Houses in which rooms or passages have been whitewashed | 711 |
| Booms disinfected with sulphurous acid gas after the occurrence of small-pox, fever, and scarlet-fever therein | 413 |
| Articles consisting of beds, bedding, clothing, &c , removed from rooms to the stone-yard and disinfected in the apparatus | 9470 |
| Articles burnt by consent | 243 |
| Yards of houses paved or the pavement repaired | 307 |
| Drains in houses improved | 320 |
| Dust-bins provided | 152 |
| Privies lime-washed, cleansed and repaired | 664 |
| Water-supply provided or improved | 83 |
| Nuisances from dung and other offensive matter removed | 175 |
| Area gratings, cellar flaps, &c., repaired | 14 |
| Animals (dogs, &c.), kept so as to be a nuisance, removed | 1 |
| Fowls, &c. „ „ | 27 |
| Baskets of plums destroyed as unfit for human food | |
| Houses closed by Magistrate's order, or by consent, as unfit for human habitation | 8 |
| Cow-houses visited in the District | 87 |
| Slaughter-houses visited in the District | 52 |
| Bakehouses visited in the District | 165 |
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.
One-hundred and forty-three samples under the Food and Drugs Act, were submitted
to the Public Analyst and 20 were found to be adulterated. Ten summonses
were taken out against the vendors and fines were inflicted in nine cases. In all
the other cases, as they were first offences, the vendors were cautioned.