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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) 1878

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Camberwell]

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Table: Table V.—RETURN OF WORKS CARRIED OUT FROM THE 26th MARCH, 1878, TO THE 25th MARCH, 1879, (inclusive).

Table V.—RETURN OF WORKS CARRIED OUT FROM THE 26th MARCH, 1878, TO THE 25th MARCH, 1879, (inclusive).

Description of Work.Inspectors.Total
MackayFisherStevensonSedgley
Houses inspected26142273243724469770
Notices served, 1st88612667909633905
„ 2nd49426141193
Summonses9347555
Drains cleansed and repaired230151107265753
„ trapped115212169372868
Cesspools emptied1035624
„ abolished10191434
Closets provided154221
„ cleansed and repaired1466047180433
„ water laid on to3134671331071020
Houses cleansed176926997434
„ repaired1817641103401
Water supplied to houses1216192976
Cisterns supplied172198876454
Cisterns covered and repaired776314032312
Dust-bins provided173208221367969
Houses drained into sewer131112232178
Yards paved...728...35
„ drained1223144190
Cow-houses inspected1113342280
Slaughter-houses inspected.15127741
Bake-houses inspected36...3643115
Overcrowding abated21115
Manure, foul accumulations, &c., removed164265096
Pigs removed26147 13
Urinals cleansed41013633
Miscellaneous complaints attended to11713798259J J 611
Water supply—complaints of deficiency of2417436
Houses in which structural altera tions were made, under Artizans' and Labourers' Dwellings Act...1......1
Sale of Food and Drugs Act, 1875, Samples submitted for Analysis..55455466220
Summonses under the above Act65111133
Cases of Small Pox attended to663054461476
Cases of Scarlet Fever attended to352715741260
Cases of Fever attended to.11921133
Cases of Diphtheria attended to2537J J 17
Houses disinfected6725624797667
Notices outstanding68302722147
Lodging Houses...118293
Disorderly Houses...1......1