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Whitechapel 1889

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Whitechapel]

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Table: Total P.– SANITRY AND OTHER WORK PERFPRMED BY THE INSPECTORS.

Total P.– SANITRY AND OTHER WORK PERFPRMED BY THE INSPECTORS.

Classification of Work.Quarter ending March 30th.Quarter ending June 29th.Quarter ending Sept. 28th.Quarter ending Dec. 28th.Totals for the year.
Numbers of Inspections of Houses as shewn in the Official Returns285534072i20259310975
Houses specially visited5406472002111607
Houses specially re visited112715846276233961
Preliminary Notices served, such Notices embracing 2181 premises3383712742391222
Compulsory Orders issued, embracing 884 premises122786568333
Summonses heard at Police Court under Sanitary Act6...2210
,, ,, ,, Adulteration of Food and Drugs Acts...2...13
,, ,, ,, Bakehouses Act...............
Cellars used as dwellings, caused to be discontinued to be so used736723
Shed in yard used as a dwelling, discontinued for such use.........11
Cases of overcrowding and indecent occupation abated11...24
Houses in which rooms or passages have been whitewashed1434172192671046
Ventilation of houses improved...............
Floors of Rooms, &c., repaired21432034118
Stackpipes. Eaves, Gutters, &c., provided or repaired12179543
Nuisances from smoke abated662115
Rooms disinfedted with sulphurous acid gas, after the occurrence of cases of infectious diseases34266861189
Articles consisting of beds, bedding, clothing, &c., removed to the stone-yard, and there disinfected7091552162821075996
Articles burnt by consent35744431184
Yards of houses paved, or the paving repaired53856975282
Drains in houses improved93999159342
Dangerous structures notified to the London County Council99152025159
Roofs of houses repaired1616252380
Closets limewashed, cleansed and repaired2215792041731177
Closets provided with a flushing apparatus and water supply98127120149494
Defective water fittings to closets repaired29441917109
Water supply to houses improved61252952
Nuisances arising from dung and other offensive matter removed57294428158
Area-gratings, cellar-flaps, &c., repaired15951140
Houses closed by Magistrate's order, or by consent, as unfit for human habitation762823
Dust-bins provided, or improved218162763
Samples under Food and Drugs Act submitted to Public Analyst29333340135
Cesspools abolished2...1..3
Animals, &c., kept so as to constitute a nuisance, removed21515...32
Trades' nuisances abolished...............
Casks. &c., of putrid meat, &c., destroyed as unfit for human food1682......98
Retention of dead bodies removed...2...13
Filthy bedding removed from furnished rooms...451762
Stables removed from yards of houses...1...1

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In addition to this Return, the Inspectors report that they have four times during the year visited the 20 cow-houses and 13 slaughter-houses
in the district, and twice during the year they have visited the 69 bake-houses in the district.