Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Camberwell]
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Table IV.— RETURN OF WORKS CARRIED OUT FROM THE 26th MARCH, 1879, TO THE 25th MARCH, 1880, (inclusive).
Description of Work. | Inspectors. | Total | |||
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Mackay | Fisher | Stevenson | Sedgley | ||
Houses inspected | 2650 | 2811 | 2552 | 3151 | 11164 |
Notices served, 1st | 802 | 1044 | 594 | 1098 | 3538 |
„ 2nd | 37 | 35 | 53 | 49 | 174 |
Summonses | 3 | 11 | 26 | 5 | 45 |
Drains cleansed and repaired | 143 | 188 | 104 | 252 | 687 |
„ trapped | 112 | 131 | 23 | 225 | 491 |
Cesspools Emptied | 5 | 5 | 18 | 2 | 30 |
„ abolished | 5 | 5 | 9 | 21 | 40 |
Closets provided | 35 | 6 | 1 | 17 | 59 |
„ cleansed and repaired | 178 | 48 | 55 | 28 | 309 |
„ water laid on to | 852 | 367 | 317 | 312 | 1348 |
Houses cleansed | 62 | 182 | 111 | 160 | 515 |
„ repaired | 95 | 35 | 30 | 173 | 333 |
Water supplied to houses | 8 | 5 | 20 | 79 | 118 |
Cisterns supplied | 170 | 129 | 20 | 104 | 423 |
Cisterns covered and repaired | 45 | 56 | 179 | 115 | 395 |
Dust-bins provided | 135 | 231 | 187 | 329 | 882 |
Houses drained into Sewer | 55 | 13 | 103 | 82 | 253 |
Yards paved | 18 | 3 | 16 | ... | 37 |
„ drained | 12 | 18 | 55 | 15 | 100 |
Cow-houses inspected | 10 | 13 | 40 | 23 | 86 |
Slaughter-houses inspected | 15 | 12 | 11 | 7 | 45 |
Bake-houses inspected | 42 | 33 | 31 | 47 | 153 |
Overcrowding abated | 6 | 1 | ... | 6 | 13 |
Manure, foul accumulations, &c., removed | 35 | 11 | 37 | 76 | 159 |
Pigs removed | 1 | ... | 1 | 5 | 7 |
Urinals cleansed | 4 | 6 | 12 | 12 | 34 |
Miscellaneous complaints attended to | 102 | 80 | 154 | 270 | 606 |
Water supply—complaints of deficiency of | 13 | ... | ... | ... | 13 |
Notices outstanding | 12 | 32 | 31 | 16 | 91 |
Houses in which structural alterations were made, under Artizans' Dwellings Act | ... | ... | ... | 5 | 5 |
Sale of Food and Drugs Act, 1875, and Amended Act, 1879 | |||||
Samples submitted for Analysis | 48 | 62 | 58 | 63 | 231 |
Summonses under the above Act | 9 | 16 | 14 | 9 | 48 |
Cases of Small Pox attended to | 27 | 104 | 61 | 53 | 45 |
Cases of Scarlet Fever attended to | 64 | 122 | 82 | 81 | 339 |
Cases of Fever attended to | 5 | 10 | 1 | 9 | 25 |
Cases of Diphtheria attended to | 3 | 21 | 13 | 2 | 39 |
Houses disinfected | 47 | 125 | 99 | 104 | 375 |
Lodging Houses inspected | ... | 11 | ... | 217 | 228 |
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