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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 Year1898.

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 Lewisham25426498836935726329348106314308...27628218353520517823122995572122342962212030939102210352406131564130163811615416
Sydenham and Forest-hill3671660376862949618118163139128421724694570100172561060558174113149...63625013302537140485...37467...711149
Penge.1221459161945159227875361502140127100380124444337038315321688...154360...13...4912...122...5...32501
Totals.73356681722320151813537616222514486648665537714854291394330154291498539368513307716004713002428724291213661231762838126281066