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Stepney 1900

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Whitechapel]

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Table: TABLE P.—SANITARY AND OTHER WORK PERFORMED BY THE INSPECTORS, 1900.

TABLE P.—SANITARY AND OTHER WORK PERFORMED BY THE INSPECTORS, 1900.

Quarter ended March 31st.Quarter ended June 30th.Quarter ended Sept. 29thQuarter ended Dec. 29th.Totals for the year.
Number of Inspections of Houses as shown in the Official Returns600648714825540721109
Preliminary notices served4615675364742038
Compulsory orders issued214136169135654
Summonses taken cut under Public Health (London) Act771...15
,, ,, Adulteration of Food and Drugs Acts......1...1
Cellars used as dwellings caused to be discontinued to be so used58311054
Cases of overcrowding and indecent occupation abated145121647
Houses in which walls and ceilings have been cleansed or repaired3402572762211094
Roofs of houses repaired41564220159
Ventilation of houses improved2188129
Houses in which floorings of rooms, staircases, risers or treads, window-sashes and frames, baluster rails, or fire stoves have been repaired3616121074
Eave-gutters and stack-pipes provided or repaired362381178
Nuisances from smoke abated5510323
Rooms disinfected with sulphurous acid gas after the occurrence of cases of infectious disease175244190209818
Articles, consisting of beds, bedding, clothing, etc., removed and disinfected323356905794422918946
Articles burnt by consent99
Courts and yards of houses paved, or paving repaired31371722110
Drainage of houses altered, improved or reconstructed59553435183
Traps to drains in houses, yards or courts improved104834456287
New w.c.'s erected1415424
Closet pans and traps re-set60724048220
Closets provided with light and ventilation10172...29
Closets provided with a water supply and flushing apparatus, or defective' water fittings repaired78544123196
Closets cleansed or repaired13214315475504
Urinals erected3.........3
Walls of yards or courts limewashed30493527141
Water supply to houses provided or improved2527161280
Nuisances from dung or other offensive matter removed68534129191
Houses closed by Magistrates' order, or by consent, as unfit for human habitation...7......7
Dust-bins provided or repaired, or removed, and galvanised iron dust-pails substituted4124635
Samples under Sale of Food and Drugs Act submitted to the Public Analyst30303843141
Bakehouses cleansed1910121
Workshops cleansed26403619121
Ventilation of workshops improved555318
Overcrowding in workshops abated453618
Additional closet accommodation to workshops provided21914549
Workshops closed...4...15
Receptacles for dung provided and reconstructed232...7
Nuisance from gas stoves in workshops abated.........44

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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.:—2,650 eggs; 1 cwt. of sweetstuff; 5
bushels of apples; 12 cases of bananas; 17 boxes of oranges; 337 boxes of strawberries;
163 baskets of cherries; 1 box and 6 barrels of grapes; 334 baskets and 60 boxes of
plums; 35 bushels of pears; 31 boxes of tomatoes; 80 baskets and 689 cases of sloes;
1 sieve of peaches; 1 box of pomegranates; 2 bags of walnuts; 46 bags of potatoes;
40 bags of turnip tops; 34 bags of onions; 17 bags of offal; 6 boxes of mackerel and
300 herrings.