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 VII.
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. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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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 |