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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 VI.
Systematic House to House Inspection.
Systematic Sanitary Inspection of Streets during the quarter enables me to present complete
details of a group of streets in the neighbourhood of Moscow 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.

Table: The result of systematic Sanitary Inspection enables me to add the following record of Streets and Places to the list published in former Reports:—

The result of systematic Sanitary Inspection enables me to add the following record of Streets and Places to the list published in former Reports:—

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.Avcrago 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 ofNo. of Sanitary Orders issued.
each house.each room.Yards.Houses
D.w.c.
Caroline Place4679184154365.93.651840312....1 .22312423
Elams Place561014145.62.8281760314....1 .2 .2...22325
Moscow Road13334864479.32.51212864307.8...25 .4212...4
Salem Gardens107102293.13.1311309429....2 .2 .2...25245
Dove Cottages7122825318.2.564533566....244............25
Poplar Place and Square16286651576.71.71086024......2 .9 .6...3...2...5
Pickering Place17761041423413.33.13265575419.3...2 .8 .6...5261011
Chapel side2671104139969.2.22353258369.4...2 .5 .4...962213
Victoria Place2660165123607.31.11832329319.6...2 .4 .4...113...2
Bark Place133864476310.72.21404452......2 .6 .64...36610
Totals...