London's Pulse: Medical Officer of Health reports 1848-1972
View report page
Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
Paddington 1868
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Paddington]
This page requires JavaScript
2
Deaths in St. Mary's Hospital are 55, 7 of which from
Pyaemia were a sufficiently large proportion to attract the notice
of the Hospital authorities. 26 deaths occurred in the Workhouse,
amongst which were 3 of Typhus Fever, 36 Inquests were held
during this quarter in the Parish; of these 11 were deaths from
natural causes, 20 were deaths from accidental causes, viz., 2
accidental suffocation of infants in bed with mother; 4 burns
from clothes taking fire; 14 from accidental violence by falls, and
street accidents with vehicles: the latter cases were taken to
St. Mary's Hospital; 3 cases of suicide and 2 of infanticide.
The deaths in young children this quarter are 148, or 37 less
than last quarter. The Deaths from Measles and Whooping
Cough have been fatal to a less number of children, owing to the
very mild spring weather.
Nuisances and Complaints.
The register book of complaints and nuisances contains 300 cases, which admit of the following classification:—
| Defects of drainage and untrapped gulleys. | 31 |
| „ „ water supply | 2 |
| Dirty state of premises, water closets and cesspool, urinals, stagnant water, &c. | 21 |
| Offensive trades, marine stores, tallow and fat boiling, putrid, and frying fish, gas liquors, &c. | 21 |
| Bad meat | 5 |
| Overcrowding and bad ventilation | 7 |
| Smoke nuisances, sulphur and ballast burning | 5 |
| Animals kept in a dirty state, noises arising from dogs, cock-crowing, pigs, goats, fowls, pigeons, and rabbits | 11 |
| Canal Basin | 9 |
| Cows kept, and slaughtering of pigs without a licence | 2 |
| Smells from decaying and putrid substances | 8 |
| Accumulation of dust from non-removal | 145* |
| „ and retention of manure, garbage, refuse, dung, &c. | 23 |
| Workshop Regulation Act, management of Dead-house, Vaccination, street watering, carpet beating, condition of roadway and Serpentine, exercising of horses | 10 |
| 300 |
* In addition to 269 made to Office of Vestry Clerk, and entered
separately in a book kept for that purpose.