Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Paddington]
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TABLE III.
Summary of Sanitary Work, Quarter ending March 27th, 1869.
I.— Inspections consequent
on Nuisances, Complaints,
and Offensive
and Injurious Trades.
' Houses and Places Inspected with respect to their
Sanitary State
63
Orders issued for Sanitary Works
53
Works done
59
Works in progress
24
Inspections of Offensive Trades
11
„ Mews and Manure Wharves
65
„ Cow-houses
28
„ Slaughter-houses
28
„ Bake-houses
—
Mortuary or Dead-house almost daily
—
„ Provision Markets every Saturday
— .
„ Churches, Chapels and Schools
4
„ Factories, Work-rooms and other Public
Institutions
22
„ Fever and Small-Pox Conveyance used .
5
II.—Systematic Sanitary
Inspection of Dwellings
Houses and Premises visited and inspected
268
Re-inspections
190
Orders issued for Sanitary Works
190
Works executed
163
„ Formal Orders issued by the Vestry
—
III.— Attendances upon
Magistrates, Surveyor,
at the Police,Coroner's
Courts, and Licensing
Meetings.
Attendances
2
Summones
—
For obtaining Summonses
—
„ hearing „
—
„ Letters written and received
70
Nuisances and Complaints during the Quarter ending
March 27th, 1869.
The register book of complaints and nuisances contains
78 cases, which admit of the following classification:—
Defects of drainage and untrapped gulleys.
10
„ „ water supply
1
Dirty state of premises, water closets, urinals,
stagnant water, percolations, &c.
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Offensive trades, marine stores, frying of fish,
ballast burning, bad meat, &c.
2
Overcrowding and bad ventilation
1
Smoke nuisances
1
Animals being dirtily kept, and noises from
3
Smells from the Canal Basin
—
Accumulation and deposit of manure, garbage,
refuse, dust, dung, &c.
23
Smells from decaying and putrid substances .
7
Defective cleansing of Roadways
1
Dangerous Structure
—
Miscellaneous other complaints
2
Total
78