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Paddington 1868

[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 supply8
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 ventilation7
Smoke nuisances3
Animals being kept, and noises from2
Smells from the Canal Basin1
Accumulation and deposit of manure, garbage, refuse, dnst, dung, &c.20
Smells from decaying and putrid substances7
Defective cleansing of Roadways8
Dead-house, complaints against5
Miscellaneous other complaints11
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 State108
Orders issued for Sanitary Works51
Works done64
Works in progress29
Inspections of Offensive Trades9
„ Mews and Manure Wharves86
„ Cow-houses31
„ Slaughter-houses40
„ Bake-houses16
„ Mortuary or Dead-house20
„ Provison Markets8
„ Churches, Chapels and Schools3
„ Factories, Work-rooms and other Public Institutions4
„ Small-Pox Conveyance6
II.—Systematic Sanitary Inspection of DwellingsHouses and Premises visited and inspected238
Re-inspections120
Orders issued for Sanitary Works46
Works executed87
Formal Orders issued by the Vestry4
III. — Attendances upon Magistrates, Surveyor, at the Police, Coroner's Courts, and Licensing Meetings.Attendances21
Summonses1
For obtaining Summonses2
„ hearing „5
Letters written39