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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) 1875

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Camberwell]

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Table: TABLE III.— Return of Works carried out from the 26th March, 1875, to 25th March, 1876 (inclusive).

TABLE III.— Return of Works carried out from the 26th March, 1875, to 25th March, 1876 (inclusive).

Description of Work.Inspectors.Total.
Fraser.MacKay.Fisher.Comfort.
Houses inspected262631682935288411,603
Notices served, 1st9779439106203,450
Ditto 2nd45509773265
Ditto for Lodging Houses129.........129
Summonses914521994
Drains cleansed and repaired310334173176993
Ditto trapped219237202184842
Cesspools emptied154515
Ditto abolished455519
Closets provided...1713434
Ditto cleansed and repaired22524515040660
Ditto, water laid on to24432624484898
Houses cleansed31410615720597
Ditto repaired3091585977603
Water supplied to houses430261268
Butts and cisterns supplied156225167641041
Ditto covered or repaired130159120
Dust bins provided2261805352301171
Houses drained into sewer49521716134
Yards paved???10974128
Ditto drained1???153543112
Cow houses inspected179133069
Slaughter houses inspected89141243
Bake houses inspected43263119119
Lodging houses inspected72.........72
Houses overcrowded abated26184...48
Manure, foul accumulation, &c., removed112421817189
Cases in which pigs were removed2613526
Bedding, &c., disinfected after disease37276155180
Urinals cleansed26117347
Miscellaneous complaints attended to315201205225946
Disorderly houses suppressed2.........2
Notices outstanding...17272468
Dust complaints attended to............4,141
Water supply—com plaints of deficiency70431214139
Houses proceeded against under the Artizans' and Labourers' Dwellings Act, 1868:—
For demolition of ditto3122228
For structural alterations, &c.6...5718