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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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Systematic Sanitary Inspection of Streets during the quarter enables me to present complete details
of a group of streets in the neighbourhood of Woodfield Road and Chippenham Road. In some of
these houses a large number of families live ; several instances of overcrowding have been abated within
the last year by simple notice, or a threat of proceedings under the powers of the Nuisances Removal Act.
| Streets Inspected Systematically. | No. of HousesInspected. | 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. | Average Cubic Space in each House. | Average Cubic Space for each person. | Cubic Space of inhabited Dwellings. | Average No. of 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. | ||||||||||||||||||
| Woodfield Place | 31 | 236 | 199 | 150 | 13 | 5 | 349 | 7871 | 669.1 | 244,001 | 2 | 8 | ... | 7 | ... | ... | 5 | 8 | ||
| Woodfield Road | 37 | 77 | 193 | 145 | 130 | 13 | 4 | 275 | 7871 | ... | 1 | 10 | 8 | 23 | 4 | |||||
| Windsor Place | 13 | 19 | 52 | 38 | 56 | 5 | 94 | •• | ... | 1 | ... | ... | 3 | |||||||
| Windsor Gardens | 14 | 56 | 50 | 43 | 5 | 93 | 3933 | 579.5 | 4 | 4 | 6 | 3 | 5 | |||||||
| John Street | 13 | 20 | 52 | 42 | 14 | 5 | 103 | 3933 | 496.4 | 51,129 | 2 | 4 | 4 | 8 | 1 | ... | 5 | 8 | ||
| Carlton Terrace | 9 | 72 | 37 | 29 | 14 | 5 | 5408 | 737.3 | 48,672 | 3 | 10 | 8 | 1 | 8 | 5 | |||||
The opening of Carlton Bridge over the Canal, by which it is proposed to make a communication
with the West and North West district of London, will materially improve the class of houses likely
to be built, and persons likely to reside in this quarter. An open part for recreation ought also to be
secured forthwith before it becomes too difficult to obtain land.
A new neighbourhood is here fast springing up, and it is much to be regretted that some of the
new houses in mewses are becoming thickly inhabited by a low class of persons, removing from old
streets and houses of other town districts, a large proportion of whom are found on the books of the
Relieving Officers, and others are verging towards pauperism.