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Whitechapel 1897

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Whitechapel]

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Table: Table P.— SANITARY AND OTHER WORK PERFORMED BY THE INSPECTORS.—1807.

Table P.— SANITARY AND OTHER WORK PERFORMED BY THE INSPECTORS.—1807.

Classification of Work.Quarter ended Mar. 27th, 1897.Quarter ended Tune 26th, 1897.Quarter ended Sept. 25th, 1897.Quarter ended Jan. 1st, 1898.Totals for the year.
Number of Inspections of Houses as shown in the Official Returns595062545188726124653
Preliminary notices served6167185625572483
Compulsory orders issued173180109138600
Summonses taken out under Public Health (London) Act9132226
,, ,, Adulteration of Food and Drugs Acts „ „ Housing of the Working64414
Classes Act..........
Cellars used as dwellings caused to be discontinued to be so used431118
Cases of overcrowding and indecent occupation abated1412151556
Housing in which walls and ceilings have been cleansed or repaired3364174272521632
Hoofs of houses repaired102623055249
Ventilation of houses improved881284548309
Houses in which floorings of rooms, staircases, risers or treads, window-snshes and frames, baluster rails, or fire stoves have been repaired1142085766445
Damp courses to houses inserted49163371
Passages and staircases of houses provided with light......11
Eave gutters and stack-pipes provided or repaired82432235182
Nuisances from smoke abated411..6
Rooms disinfected with sulphurous acid gas after th occurrence of cases of infectious disease2102583722341074
Articles, consisting of beds, bedding, clothing, etc removed and disinfected693280059900541930256
Articles burnt by consent......22
Courts and yards of houses paved, or paving repaired991596291411
Drainage of houses altered, improved or reconstructed107958988379
Traps to drains in houses, yards or courts improved168181150249748
Closet pans and traps re-set868540164375
Closets provided with light and ventilation410112348
Closets provided with a water supply and flushin apparatus, or defective water fittings repaired1268976211502
Closets cleansed or repaired1752'0175269829
Walls of yards or courts limewaslied85915237265
Water supply to houses provided or improved2110143192
Nuisances from dung or other offensive matter removed.262525283359
Houses closed by Magistrates' order, or by consent, a unfit for human habitation1063120
Dust-bins provided or repaired, or removed, and galvanisec iron dust-pails substituted494623
Samples under Sale of Food and Drugs Act submitted to the public analyst30303030120
Dead bodies removed to mortuary10811231
Shed used as a sleeping department discontinued......11
Bakehouses cleansed..79117
Bakehouse used as a sleeping apartment discontinued ...1....1
Workshops cleansed153731671
Ventilation of workshops improved22214451
Overcrowding in workshops abated3216
Additional closet accommodation to workshops provided202711967
Workshops closed1257327
Receptacles for dung provided and reconstructed....1..56
Additional closet accommodation to private houses provided......33

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In addition to the above, the Inspectors have had destroyed as unfit for human food during the year the following articles,
viz..—75 barrels and 6 boxes of Grapes; 46 barrels and 27 boxes of Apples; 13 boxes of Oranges; 190 bags and 16 boxes of
Onious; 6 dozen Cauliflowers ; 2 crates and 6 boxes of Bananas; 27 bushels of Pears ; 4 boxes of Black Currants ; 68 baskets of
cherries; 94 boxes of Tomatoes; 15 bags of Peas; 4 bushels of Plums; 1 bag of Walnuts; 249 barrels of Brine; lj ton of
Bullocks Heads; 1½ cwt. of Sausage Meat; 1,600 Fowls; 2 Sheep; 2 barrels of Gurnets; 1 barrel and 4 boxes of Cods' Roes;
23 Bream 2 boxes of Mackerel; 6 barrels of Herrings 20 barrels of Fresh Water Fish 1 box of Hake and 2 boxes of Haddocks.