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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TABLE
I.—Inspections consequent on Nuisances, Complaints, and Offensive and Injurious Trades. | Houses and Places Inspected with respect to their Sanitary State | 89 |
Orders issued for Sanitary Works | 102 | |
Works done | 97 | |
Works in progress | 5 | |
Inspections of Offensive Trades | 14 | |
„ Mews and Manure Wharves | 136 | |
„ Cow-houses | 29 | |
,, Slaughter-houses | 58 | |
„ Bake-houses | 20 | |
„ Mortuary or Dead-house almost daily | — | |
„ Provision Markets every Saturday | — | |
„ Churches, Chapels and Schools | 7 | |
„ Factories, Work-rooms and other Public Institutions | 20 | |
,, Fever and Small-Pox Conveyance used . | ||
II.—Systematic Sanitary Inspection of Dwellings | Houses and Premises visited and inspected | 301 |
Rw-inspections | 243 | |
Orders issued for Sanitary Works | 140 | |
Works executed | 131 | |
Formal Orders issued by the Vestry | ||
III.— Attendances upon Magistrates, Surveyor, at the Police,Coroner'sCourts, and Licensing Meetings. | Attendances | |
Summonses | — | |
For obtaining Summonses | — | |
,, hearing „ | — | |
Letters written | 23 |
Nuisances and Complaints during the Quarter ending
December 26th, 1868.
The register book of complaints and nuisances contains
Defects of drainage and untrapped gulleys. | 16 |
„ „ water supply | 2 |
Dirty state of premises, water closets, urinals, stagnant water, percolations, &c | 19 |
Offensive trades, marine stores, frying of fish, ballast burning, bad meat, &c. | 4 |
Overcrowding and bad ventilation | 3 |
Smoke nuisances | 3 |
Animals being dirtily kept, and noises from | 10 |
Smells from the Canal Basin | |
Accumulation and deposit of manure,garbage, refuse, dust, dung, &c. | 18 |
Smells from decaying and putrid substances | |
Detective cleansing of Roadways | 3 |
Dangerous Structure | |
Miscellaneous other complaints | 9 |
89 |