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Paddington 1868

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Paddington]

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Nuisances and Complaints.

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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

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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