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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 1869

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Paddington]

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Table: TABLE III.Summary of Sanitary Work ,Quarter ending Jan. 1st, 1870.

TABLE III.

Summary of Sanitary Work ,Quarter ending Jan. 1st, 1870.

I.—Inspections consequent on Nuisances, Complaints, and Offensive and Injurious Trades.Houses and Places Inspected with respect to their Sanitary State132
Orders issued for Sanitary Works123
Works done147
Works in progress—
Inspections of Offensive Trades„ Mews and Manure Wharves13 48
,, Cow-houses24
,, Slaughter-houses26
,, Bake-houses10
,, Mortuary or Dead-house27
„ Provision Markets13
„ Churches, Chapels and Schools4
„ Factories, Work-rooms and other Public Institutions10
„ Small-Pox Conveyance—
II.—Systematic Sanitary Inspection of DwellingsHouses and Premises visited and inspected342
Re-inspections78
Orders issued for Sanitary Works78
Works executed95
Formal Orders issued by the Vestry—
III.— Attendances upon Magistrates, Surveyor, at the Police,Coroner's Courts, and Licensing Meetings.Summonses5
For obtaining Summonses5
„ hearing „5
Letters written20
Fines and Penalties paid£9:15:6

Table: TABLE IV.Deaths from Zymotic and other Diseases during 14 weeks ending Jan. 1st,1870.

TABLE IV.

Deaths from Zymotic and other Diseases during 14 weeks ending Jan. 1st,

1870.

Weeks. endingSmall-Pox.Measles.Scarlatina.Diphtheria, Quinsy & Croup.Whooping CoughTyphus, Infantile and other Fevers.Carbuncle, Erysipelas and Pyæmia.Dysentery and Diarrhoea.Cholera.Phthisis and Tubercular Dis.Bronchitis and Pneumonia.Other Diseases.Accidents and Violent Deaths.Total.
Oct. 2.......3...2...14...3112228
„ 9................2...3...7515133
„ 16.......41...1...1...4110931
„ 23.......412......1...2...13...23
„ 30.......3............1...4419334
Nov. 6....13............1...6111225
„ 13.......2......11......2411122
,, 20....26...11...1...2724448
„ 27.......21...1.........11512...32
Dec. 4.......8......1...1...8518...41
„ 11....12...1............4614230
„ 18......3...11...1...5715...33
„ 251...211...1......5812...31
Jan. 1...52.........12...7922141
1944488416...706320825460

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The Books of the Parochial Medical Officers, of the Star Street
and Kilburn Dispensaries, and Returns sent by a few private
Medical practitioners have been examined. The unusual number
of cases of scarlet fever, indicating its epidemic character, is
the only feature in the state of public health of this District
that calls for remark.