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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 State89
Orders issued for Sanitary Works102
Works done97
Works in progress5
Inspections of Offensive Trades14
„ Mews and Manure Wharves136
„ Cow-houses29
,, Slaughter-houses58
„ Bake-houses20
„ Mortuary or Dead-house almost daily
„ Provision Markets every Saturday
„ Churches, Chapels and Schools7
„ Factories, Work-rooms and other Public Institutions20
,, Fever and Small-Pox Conveyance used .4
II.—Systematic Sanitary Inspection of DwellingsHouses and Premises visited and inspected301
Rw-inspections243
Orders issued for Sanitary Works140
Works executed131
Formal Orders issued by the Vestry1
III.— Attendances upon Magistrates, Surveyor, at the Police,Coroner'sCourts, and Licensing Meetings.Attendances1
Summonses
For obtaining Summonses
,, hearing „
Letters written23

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

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

Defects of drainage and untrapped gulleys.16
„ „ water supply2
Dirty state of premises, water closets, urinals, stagnant water, percolations, &c19
Offensive trades, marine stores, frying of fish, ballast burning, bad meat, &c.4
Overcrowding and bad ventilation3
Smoke nuisances3
Animals being dirtily kept, and noises from10
Smells from the Canal Basin
Accumulation and deposit of manure,garbage, refuse, dust, dung, &c.18
Smells from decaying and putrid substances2
Detective cleansing of Roadways3
Dangerous Structure
Miscellaneous other complaints9
Total89