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Whitechapel 1891

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Whitechapel]

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Table: table P.—SANITARY AND OTHER WORK PERFORMED BYTHE INSPECTORS.

table P.—SANITARY AND OTHER WORK PERFORMED BY

THE INSPECTORS.

Classification of Work.Quarter ending Mar. 28th.Quarter ending June27th.Quarter ending Sept. 26th.Quarter ending Dec. 26th.Totals for the year.
Numbers of Inspections of Houses as shewn in the Official Returns289337022513251811626
Houses specially visited827365379251ib22
Preliminary Notices served, such Notices embracing 1833 premises4554313013651552
Compulsory Orders issued, embracing 528 premises3015480104374
Summonses taken out under Sanitary Act151i8
„ „ Adulteration of Food and...............
Drugs Acts12......3
„ ,, Housing of Working Classes...............
A a...2...1416
Cellars used as dwellings, caused to be discontinued to be so used...1313843
Cases of overcrowding and indecent occupation abated6611225
Houses in which walls and ceilings have been cleansed or repaired19810981151539
Roofs of houses repaired38161937110
Ventilation of houses improved210820
Houses in which floorings of rooms, staircase risers or tread's, window sashes and frames, baluster rails, or fire stoves have been repaired59603820177
Jsaves gutters and stackpipes provided or repaired331283386
Nuisances from smoke abated...219425
Rooms disinfected with sulphurous acid gas, after the occurrence of cases of infectious diseases926714195395
Articles consisting of beds, bedding, clothing, &c., removed and disinfected315219602474268610272
Articles burnt by consent...............
Courts and yards of houses paved, or paving repaired1331334050356
Drainage of houses altered, improved, or re-constructed115107.7072364
Traps to drains in houses, yards, or courts, improved107186117141551
Closet pans and traps re-set3831111999
Floors of closets repaired13138236
Closets provided with a water supply and flushing apparatus or defedlive water fittings repaired1661195156392
Uosets cleansed or repaired2431059790535
Walls of yards or courts limewashed64411324142
Water supply to houses improved24161850108
Nuisances from dung and other offensive matter removed52453421152
Area-gratings, cellar-flaps, &c., repaired296421
nouses closed by Magistrate's order, or by consent, as unfit for human habitation20732325141
"st-bins provided, or repaired, or removed and gal-vanised iron dust pails substituted141131947
Samples under sale of Food and Drugs Act submitted to the Public Analyst ..32353248147
animals, kept so as to constitute a nuisance, removed72...110
asks, baskets, &c., of putrid meat, fruit &c., destroyed as unfit for human food19...295...314
Retention of dead bodies removed13......4
Stables removed from yards of houses...1......1
Wash-house used as a Stable discontinued......111

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In addition to this Return, the Inspectors report that they have forwarded to the London
Conty Council 52 notices of dangerous structures, which have been promptly attended to.
. The Cowhouses, 17 in number, and the Slaughter-houses, 8 in number, and the bake houses,
70 in number, have been periodically visited during the year.