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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Nuisances and Complaints.
The register book of nuisances and complaints contains 130 cases, which admit of the following classification:—
Defects of drainage and untrapped gulleys. | 32 |
„ „ water supply | 8 |
Dirty state of premises, water closets, urinals, stagnant water, percolations, &c. | 20 |
Offensive trades, marine stores, frying of fish, ammonical liquor, bad meat, &c. | 10 |
Overcrowding and bad ventilation | 7 |
Smoke nuisances | 3 |
Animals being kept, and noises from | 2 |
Smells from the Canal Basin | 1 |
Accumulation and deposit of manure, garbage, refuse, dnst, dung, &c. | 20 |
Smells from decaying and putrid substances | 7 |
Defective cleansing of Roadways | 8 |
Dead-house, complaints against | 5 |
Miscellaneous other complaints | 11 |
130 |
TABLE III.
Summary of Sanitary Work , Quarter ending March 28th, 1868.
I.—Inspections consequent on Nuisances, Complaints, and Offensive and Injurious Trades. | Houses and Places Inspected with respect to their Sanitary State | 108 |
Orders issued for Sanitary Works | 51 | |
Works done | 64 | |
Works in progress | 29 | |
Inspections of Offensive Trades | 9 | |
„ Mews and Manure Wharves | 86 | |
„ Cow-houses | 31 | |
„ Slaughter-houses | 40 | |
„ Bake-houses | 16 | |
„ Mortuary or Dead-house | 20 | |
„ Provison Markets | 8 | |
„ Churches, Chapels and Schools | 3 | |
„ Factories, Work-rooms and other Public Institutions | 4 | |
„ Small-Pox Conveyance | 6 | |
II.—Systematic Sanitary Inspection of Dwellings | Houses and Premises visited and inspected | 238 |
Re-inspections | 120 | |
Orders issued for Sanitary Works | 46 | |
Works executed | 87 | |
Formal Orders issued by the Vestry | 4 | |
III. — Attendances upon Magistrates, Surveyor, at the Police, Coroner's Courts, and Licensing Meetings. | Attendances | 21 |
Summonses | 1 | |
For obtaining Summonses | 2 | |
„ hearing „ | 5 | |
Letters written | 39 |