[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Whitechapel] page 34

Whitechapel 1886

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Whitechapel]

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Table: T ABLE M.—SANITARY WORK PERFORMED BY THE INSPECTORS.

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T ABLE M.—SANITARY WORK PERFORMED BY THE INSPECTORS.

Sanitary Work performed by the Inspectors.	Quarter ending April 3rd.	Quarter ending July 3rd.	Quarter ending Oct. 2nd.	Quarter ending January	Totals for the year 1886.
Numbers of Inspections of Houses as shewn in the Official Returns	2513	2271	2566	2138	9488
Houses specially visited	224	215	272	476	1187
Houses specially re visited	791	967	1080	1904	4742
Preliminary Notices served, such Notices embracing 902 premises	229	205	223	256	913
Compulsory Orders issued, embracing 144 premises	74	97	86	41	298
Summonses heard at Police Court under Sanitary Act'	1	2	7	7	17
,, under Act for the Prevention of Adulteration of Food, &c.	2	1	...	3	6
,, ,, Bakehouse Act	...	1	...	...	1
Cellars used as dwellings discontinued for such	*4	8	4	1	27
Cases of overcrowding and indecent occupation abated	1	3	1	3	8
Houses in which rooms or passages have been whitewashed	92	201	162	131	586
Ventilation of houses improved	3	2	²	...	7
Rooms disinfedted with sulphurous acid gas, after the occurrence of cases of epidemic diseases therein	28	42	64	62	196
Articles consisting of beds, bedding, clothing, &c., removed from rooms to the stone-yard, and there disinfedted in the apparatus	588	1185	2173	1862	5808
Articles burnt by consent	39	329	345	22	735
Yards of houses paved, or the pavement repaired	96	131	80	43	350
Drains in houses improved	87	71	50	82	290
Dust-bins provided, or improved	131	18	21	106	276
Closets limewashed, cleansed and repaired	177	146	154	185	662
Closets provided with a flushing apparatus and water supply	152	142	143	164	601
Insufficient closet accommodation—an additional closet provided	2	2	...	1	5
Defective water fittings to closets repaired	2	17	23	11	53
Water supply improved	14	6	8	4	32
Nuisances from dung and other offensive matter removed	32	32	55	28	147
Area-gratings, cellar-flaps, &c., repaired	5	7	6	8	26
Houses closed by Magistrate's order, or by consent, as unfit for human habitation	1	²	1	...	4
Visits to cow-houses in the District	20	19	21	22	82
,, slaughter-houses in the District	13	13	13	13	52
,, bakehouses in the District	77	47	7	48	179
Samples under Food and Drugs Act submitted to Analyst	41	39	39	50	169
Cesspools abolished	...	...	1	...	1
Animals, &c., kept so as to constitute a nuisance	1	...	...	12	13
Meat, fish, eggs, &c., unfit for human food, destroyed by order of Magistrate	54b'gsonions	...	Meat 73 stns. Eggs 1 case.	...	...
Trades' nuisances abolished	...	2	1	...	3
Obstructions in the street abated	...	...	...	3	3