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Paddington 1868

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Paddington]

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TABLE III.

Summary of Sanitary Work, Quarter ending December 26th,1868.

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 .	4
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	1
III.— Attendances upon Magistrates, Surveyor, at the Police,Coroner'sCourts, and Licensing Meetings.	Attendances	1
	Summonses	—
	For obtaining Summonses	—
	,, hearing „	—
	Letters written	23

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Nuisances and Complaints during the Quarter ending
December 26th, 1868.

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The register book of complaints and nuisances contains 89cases, which admit of the following classification :—

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	2
Detective cleansing of Roadways	3
Dangerous Structure	—
Miscellaneous other complaints	9
Total	89