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Paddington 1869

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Paddington]

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Table: The completed results of Systematic Sanitary Inspection has this quarter enabled me to add details of the following Streets, which are herewith appended.TABLE VI.S ystematic H ouse to H ouse I nspectio

The completed results of Systematic Sanitary Inspection has this quarter enabled me to add details of the following Streets, which are herewith appended.

TABLE VI.

S ystematic H ouse to H ouse I nspectio

Streets Inspected Systematically.No. of Houses Inspected.No. of Holdings.No. of Rooms.No. of Adults.No. of Children.Average No. of persons living inTotal No. of Inhabitants in the Streets.Cubic Space in each House.Cubic Space for each person.Cubic Space of inhabited Dwellings.Doors,Windows,Chimnies.Defects in Water supply.Defects in W.C. Apparatus.Defects in Traps & Drains.Defects in Cleansing ofNo. of Sanitary Orders issued.
each house.each room.Yards.Houses
d.w.c.
For 7h.....2. .225
Iron-Gate-Wharf*8344472321.32.3104503335,233
Victoria Street2580150147849.21.52316887745.3172,175..363338
Albert Street2282132145679.61.02126773702.8149,006....34339
Green Street153121058427.0..100................
North Wharf Road*451392192841707.181.63544224264.5 to603.4121,4382 .6 .3
17662 .4 .2111411835
58402 .9 .6
Andover Place194510888768.61.5164........11..2..4
Canterbury Terrace248112814714412.1..2919815..................
For 6 h.
Lanark Place107231952.4..243142..18,8522 .011215
Portsdown Place5132525229.51.847...........1... .. .1
Clarendon Terrace16611281206011.2..18011,270..180,3203 .12. 8... .14. .8

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* This group ot streets and houses are mostly inhabited by persons engaged on the wharves,
and although built originally as if each house were intended to be occupied by one family, it will
be seen from the table that these houses contain an average of 8 to 13 persons. Sanitary Orders are
numerous, indicative of grave defects and neglect; but it will be observed that the average cubic
space is not up to the mark of what would be considered over-crowding. When epidemic maladies
have been from time to time recorded in the books of the Parochial Medical Officers, inspection
has been made forthwith, and the necessary orders given for disinfection.