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Lewisham 1898

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Lewisham]

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TABLE VII.
Inspector's Report of the Sanitary Work completed in the Year 1898.
Sanitary Districts.
Number of Complaints received during the year.
Number of Houses, Premises, &c., inspected.
No. of Re-inspections of Houses, Premises, &c.
Written Intimations served.
Orders issued for Sanitary Amendments of Houses,
and Premises.
Statutory Notices served.
Houses, Premises, &c., Cleansed, Repaired, Whitewashed,
&c.
Roofs, Gutters, Rain Water Pipes, &c., repaired.
Houses Disinfected after illness of an Infectious
character.
Quantities of Bedding disinfected in apparatus.
Articles of Bedding, Clothing, &c., destroyed.
House Drains.
Privies & Waterclosets.
Dust
Bins.
Water Supply.
Miscellaneous.
Legal proceedings: i.e., Summonses.
Houses inspected under house to house inspection
during the year.
Repaired, Cleansed.
R.W. Pipes Disconnected from Drains.
Waste Pipes Disconnected from Drains.
Traps provided.
Ventilated.
Houses provided with New Drains.
Repaired, &c.
Additional Water Closets provided.
Supplied with Water.
Water Closets reconstructed.
Soil Pipes reconstructed.
Ditto, repaired and ventilated.
New provided.
Repaired, Covered, &c.
Cisterns (new) erected.
Water Supply to houses reinstated.
Cisterns Cleansed, Repaired, or Covered.
Waste Pipes connected with Drains, &c.,
abolished.
Water Certificates granted.
No. of Lodging Houses registered under 35th
sec. of the "Sanitary Act, 1860," or 94th
sect., "Public Health (Lond.) Act, 1891."
Overcrowding in houses, or rooms, abated.
Dust Removal—No. of Complaints received
and attended to.
Yards to houses paved, or paving amended.
Removal of accumulations of Dung, Stagnant
Water, Animal and other Refuse.
Receptacles for Dung erected or improved.
Animals Removed, being improperly kept.
Regularly Inspected.
Bakehouses.
Milkshops.
Licensed Cowsheds.
Workshops.
Licensed Slaughter-houses.
Blackheath
and
Lewisham
254
2649
8836
935
726
329
348
106
314
308
...
276
282
183
535
205
178
231
2
299
557
212
234
296
22
1
20
309
3
910
22
10
35
240
61
31
5
64
130
16
381
16
15
416
Sydenham
and
Forest-hill
367
1660
3768
629
496
181
181
63
139
128
4
217
246
94
570
100
172
56
10
60
558
174
113
149
...
6
36
250
1
330
2
5
37
140
48
5
...
37
46
7
...
7
11
149
Penge.
122
1459
1619
451
592
27
87
53
61
50
2
140
127
100
380
124
44
43
3
70
383
153
21
68
8
...
15
43
60
...
13
...
49
12
...
1
22
...
5
...
3
2
501
Totals.
733
5668
17223
2015
1813
537
616
222
514
486
6
486
655
377
1485
4291
394
330
15
429
1498
539
368
513
30
7
71
600
47
1300
24
28
72
429
121
36
6
123
176
28
381
26
28
1066