[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Whitechapel] page 36

Whitechapel 1892

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Whitechapel]

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Table: Table P.—SANITARY AND OTHER WORK PERFORMED BY THE INSPECTORS. 1892.

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Table P.—SANITARY AND OTHER WORK PERFORMED BY THE INSPECTORS. 1892.

Classification of Work.	Quarter ending Mar. 26th.	Quarter ending June 25th.	Quarter ending Sept. 24th.	Quarter ending Dec. 31st.	Totals for the year.
Numbers of Inspections of Houses as shewn in the Official Returns	2431	2970	4029	8755	18185
Houses specially visited	725	433	638	962	2758
Preliminary Notices served	300	352	750	827	2229
Compulsory Orders issued	17	13	32	80	142
Number of Letters sent	76	87	128	115	406
Number of Telegrams sent	12	40	127	156	335
Summonses taken out under Public Health London, Act	...	...	...	..	..
,, ,, Adulteration of Food and Drugs Acts	...	...	...	...	...
„ ,, Housing of Working Classes Act	...	1	...	...	...
Cellars used as dwellings, caused to be discontinued to be so used	4	9	16	17	46
Cases of overcrowding and indecent occupation abated	...	1	14	5	20
Houses in which walls and ceilings have been cleansed or repaired	82	224	423	469	1198
Roofs of houses repaired	7	28	74	83	192
Ventilation of houses improved	...	22	26	16	64
Houses in which floorings of rooms, staircases, risers or treads, window sashes and frames, baluster rails, or fire stoves have been repaired	8	45	48	40	141
Eaves, gutters and stackpipes provided or repaired	9	20	45	55	129
Nuisances from smoke abated	...	...	3	1	4
Rooms disinfeited with sulphurous acid gas, after the occurrence of cases of infedtious diseases	78	93	468	421	1160
Articles consisting of beds, bedding, clothing, &c., removed and disinfected	2318	4900	12772	10237	30227
Articles burnt by consent	2	10	61	27	100
Courts and yards of houses paved, or paving repaired	31	63	139	168	401
Drainage of houses altered, improved, or re-constructed.	51	71	172	126	420
Traps to drains in houses, yards, or courts, improved	42	76	243	193	554
Closet pans and traps re-set	5	18	69	34	126
Closets provided with a water supply and flushing apparatus or defective water fittings repaired	28	60	115	85	288
Closets cleansed or repaired	73	104	213	183	573
Walls of yards or courts limewashed	...	42	86	53	181
Water supply to houses improved	9	29	31	24	93
Nuisances from dung and other offensive matter removed	11	27	31	27	96
Area-gratings, cellar-flaps, &c., repaired	...	8	4	22	34
Houses closed by Magistrate's order, or by consent, as unfit for human habitation	1	...	3	3	7
Dust-bins provided, or repaired, or removed and galvanised iron dust pails substituted	6	35	24	33	98
Samples under sale of Food and Drugs Act submitted to the Public Analyst	32	30	33	46	141
Animals, kept so as to constitute a nuisance, removed	...	...	4	...	4
Casks, baskets, churns, &c., of putrid meat, fruit, milk, &c., destroyed as unfit for human food	6	26	13	70	115
Urinals cleansed	...	...	2	...	2
Urinals provided with water supply	...	...	1	...	1
Cesspools abolished	2	...	...	...	2
Bakehouses used for sleeping purposes discontinued	1	...	...	...	1