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Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
St Giles (Camberwell) 1866
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Camberwell]
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TABLE IV.
| Wards | Number of Houses inspected. | Notices issued 1st. | Notices issued 2nd. | Summonses. | Drains cleansed and amended. | Drains trapped. | Cess ools emptied. | Cesspools filled up. | Closets provided. | Closets Iepaired. | Houses cleansed. | Houses repaired. | Water supplied to premises. | Water receptacles provided. | Rutts and cisterns covered. | Butts and cisterns cleansed | Dust-bins provided. | Yards paved. | Miscellaneous nuisances attended to. | Notices outstanding at end of year. | Cow-houses inspected. | Slaughterhouses inspected | Bake-houses inspected. |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3 & 6 | 1373 | 313 | 11 | 2 | 51 | 103 | 115 | 94 | 94 | 0 | 160 | 58 | 4 | 21 | 20 | 25 | 31 | 8 | .. | 21 | • • | .. | 27 |
| 1 | 1592 | 259 | 37 | 4 | 162 | 162 | 306 | 197 | 221 | 0 | 128 | 40 | 65 | 60 | 82 | 32 | 18 | 42 | .. | 13 | .. | .. | 20 |
| 2 & 4 | 1361 | 297 | 91 | 4 | 643 | 444 | 223 | 272 | 192 | 0 | 64 | 32 | 3 | 22 | 120 | 21 | 57 | 17 | .. | 37 | .. | .. | 38 |
| 5 | 1268 | 375 | 64 | 5 | 30 | 326 | 336 | 319 | 318 | 22 | 189 | 131 | 0 | 12 | 172 | .. | 206 | 7 | .. | 46 | .. | .. | 20 |
| Total | 5594 | 1244 | 203 | 15 | 886 | 1035 | 980 | 882 | 825 | 22 | 541 | 261 | 72 | 115 | 394 | 78 | 312 | 74 | 1330 | 117 | 60 | 52 | 105 |