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 Paddington]
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The register book of nuisances and complaints contains 190 cases which admit of the following classification :
Defects of drainage and untrapped gulleys. | 41 |
„ „ water supply | 5 |
Dirty state of premises, water closets, urinals, stagnant water, percolations, &c. | 25 |
Offensive trades, marine stores, frying of fish, amnioniacal liquor, bad meat, &c. | 13 |
Overcrowding and bad ventilation | 7 |
The state of the dead house . | 2 |
Smoke nuisances | 8 |
Animals being kept, and noises from | 8 |
Smells from the Canal Basin . | 7 |
Accumulation and deposit of manure, garbage, refuse, dust, dung, &c. | 57 |
Smells from decaying substances. | 7 |
Miscellaneous other complaints. | 10 |
190 |
TABLE IV.
Summary of Sanitary Work for Quarter ending September 28tli, 1867.
I.—Inspections consequent on Nuisances, Com- , plaints, and Offensive and Injurious Trades. | Houses and Places Inspected with respect to their Sanitary state | 314 |
Orders issued for Sanitary Works | 43 | |
Works done | 81 | |
Works in progrsss | — | |
Inspections of Offensive Trades | 44 | |
„ Mews and Manure Wharves | 193 | |
„ Cow-houses | 35 | |
,, Slaughter-houses | 64 | |
,, Bake-houses | — | |
„ Mortuary or Dead-house | 42 | |
,, Provision Markets | 13 | |
,, Churches, Chapels and Schools | 2 | |
,, Factories, Work-rooms and other Public Institutions | 11 | |
II.—Systematic Sanitary Inspection of Dwellings | f Houses and Treatises visited and inspected | 313 |
Re-inspections | 120 | |
Orders issued for Sanitary Works | CO | |
Works executed | 120 | |
III. — Attendances upon Magistrates, Surveyor, at thePoliceCourts,&c. | Summonses | 2 |
For obtaining Summonses | — | |
„ hearing „ | — | |
Letters written | 50 | |
Fines and Penalties paid |