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 Lewisham]
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TABLE VI.
Blackheath and Lewisham Division | Sydenham and Forest-hill Division. | Penge. | Total. | |
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Number of Complaints received during the year | 49 | 87 | 60 | 584 |
Ditto made by Inspectors | 63 | 128 | 197 | |
Number of Houses and Premises, &c., inspected | 193 | 386 | 640 | 1219 |
Orders issued for Sanitary Amendments of Houses and Premises | 85 | 165 | 244 | 494 |
Houses and Premises, &c., Cleansed, Repaired, and Whitewashed | 68 | 15 | 28 | 111 |
Houses Disinfected after Infectious Diseases | 62 | 51 | 22 | 135 |
House Drains Repaired, Cleansed, &c | 50 | 90 | 76 | 216 |
Same Trapped or Ventilated | 12 | 78 | 54 | 144 |
Water Closets Repaired, Cleansed, &c | 9 | 75 | 29 | 113 |
Same supplied with Water | 21 | 8 | 65 | 94 |
New Water Closets provided | ... | 2 | ... | 2 |
New Dust Bins provided | 23 | 195 | 37 | 255 |
Dust Bins Repaired, Covered, &c | 7 | ... | 34 | 41 |
New Water Cisterns provided | ... | 2 | 2 | 4 |
Water Cisterns Cleansed, Repaired, and Covered | 8 | 1 | 7 | 16 |
No. of Lodging Houses required to be registered under 35th Clause of the Sanitary Act, 1866 | 1 | 2 | ... | 3 |
No. of Dust Complaints and requests for removal received and attended to | 96 | 170 | 8 | 274 |
Removal of accumulations of Dung, Stagnant Water, Animal and other Refuse | 11 | 29 | 17 | 57 |
Removal of Animals improperly kept | 5 | 2 | 3 | 10 |
Licensed Cowhouses regularly Inspected | 17 | 12 | 7 | 36 |
Licensed Slaughterhouses ditto | 9 | 8 | 4 | 21 |