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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]
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TABLE VII.
Systematic House to House Inspection.
The Systematic Sanitary Inspection has this quarter been principally confined to the following Streets; completed results of which are herewith appended.
| Streets Inspected Systematically. | No. of Houses Inspected. | No. of Holdings. | No. of Rooms. | No. of Adults. | ' No. of Children. | Average No. of persons living in | Total No. of Inhabitants in the Streets. | Cubic Spaco in ouch liouso. | Cubic Space for each person. | Cubic Space of inhabited Dwellings. | Doors, | Windows, | Chimnies. | Defects in Water supply. | Defects in W.C. Apparatus. | Defects in Traps & Drains. | Defects in Cleansing of | No. of Sanitary Orders issued. | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| each house. | each room. | Yards. | Houses. | |||||||||||||||||
| D. | w. | c. | ||||||||||||||||||
| Emily Street | 11 | 59 | 88 | 110 | 63 | 1 5.7 | 1.9 | 173 | 11,684 | 751.8 | 128,524 | 3. | 9 . | 8 | •• | 2 | 2 | •• | 13 | 12 |
| Hasboro' Street | 13 | 57 | 112 | 115 | 75 | 13.8 | 1.6 | 180 | 12,113 | 874.8 | 157,469 | 3 . | 11 . | 8 | •• | •• | 3 | 3 | 3 | 6 |
| Stalham Street | 15 | 57 | 120 | 111 | 62 | 11.5 | 1.4 | 173 | 10,477 | 899.8 | 155,655 | 3. | 10 . | 8 | •• | 2 | 5 | 2 | 12 | 13 |
| Philip Terrace | 12 | 59 | 102 | 129 | 57 | 15.5 | 1.8 | 186 | 12,712 | 820.1 | 152.544 | 3. | 11 . | 8 | •• | 4 | 4 | 10 | 7 | 12 |
| Senior Street | 39 | 171 | 322 | 329 | 223 | 14.1 | 1.7 | 552 | 10,875 | 768 3 | 424,125 | 3. | 10 . | 8 | •• | 13 | 10 | 3 | 13 | 28 |
| Dartington Terrace | 17 | 74 | 136 | 149 | 120 | 15.4 | 1.9 | 269 | 9,297 | 586.3 | 157,743 | 3. | 10 . | 8 | •• | 3 | 6 | 2 | 7 | 9 |
| Ranelagh Road | 14 | 51 | 130 | 104 | 80 | 13.1 | 1.4 | 184 | 14,686 | 1117.4 | 205,604 | 3. | 10 . | 8 | •• | 3 | 6 | 2 | 7 | 9 |
This group of streets and houses are mostly of modern construction, and built originally as
if each house were intended to be occupied by one family; but, as will be seen, each house contains
an average of 14 persons. The Sanitary Orders are not numerous, or indicative of grave defects and
neglect; and it will be observed that the average cubic space is far from the mark of what would be
considered over-crowding. A few epidemic maladies have been from time to time recorded in the
books of the Parochial Medical Officer.