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 Lambeth]
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TABLE I.
PARISH OF SAINT MARY, LAMBETH.
Return , showing the Number and Nature of Nuisances complained of, and the steps taken to remove or abate the same, with the results, &c., from 25th March, 1861, to March 25th, 1862.
DESCRIPTION OF NUISANCE. | No. of Complaints of each Class. | No. of Notices served to abate Nuisances of each Class. | No. of Cases of each class In which the cause of Nuisance was abated on the notices. | No of Cases of each Class which the cause of Nuisance was not abated on Notice. | No. of Cases of each class for which Summonses were taken out. | No. of cases of each Class for which Magictrates' Order for abatement ware made |
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Foul or Offensive Privies or Closets | 359 | 359 | 313 | 46 | 8 | 8 |
Defective House Drains | 439 | 439 | 335 | 104 | 4 | 4 |
Offensive or Overcharged Cesspools | 47 | 47 | 45 | 2 | 2 | 2 |
Filthy or Unwholesome Dwellings | 167 | 167 | 164 | 3 | 3 | 3 |
Filthy or Unwholesome Dwellings | 271 | 271 Verbal | 204 | 67 | ... | ... |
Want of Proper ashpits | 1065 | 1065 | 1065 | ... | ... | ... |
Dung, & other Filthy Accumulations | 177 | 177 Verbal | 177 | ... | ... | ... |
Offensive Gullies and Street Drains | 89 | 39 | 39 | ... | ... | ... |
Offensive Urinals | 9 | 9 | 9 | ... | ... | ... |
Offensive Smells from Trades | 28 | 28 | 23 | 5 | 5 | 5 |
Offensive Slaughter Houses | 12 | 12 | 12 | ... | ... | ... |
Offensive Swine | 89 | 89 | 87 | 2 | 2 | 2 |
Filthy Cow Houses | 39 | 39 Verbal | 89 | ... | ... | ... |
Filthy Highways | 15 | 15 | 15 | ... | ... | ... |