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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 III.
S ummary of S anitary W ork , Quarter ending October 1st, 1870.
| I.—Inspections consequent on Nuisances, Complaints, and Offensive and Injurious Trades. | Houses and Places Inspected with respect to their Sanitary State | 93 |
| Orders issued for Sanitary Works | 113 | |
| Works done | 121 | |
| Works in progress | 2 | |
| Inspections of Offensive Trades | 17 | |
| „ Mews and Manure Wharves | 51 | |
| ,, Cow-house | 24 | |
| ,, Slaughter-houses | 20 | |
| ,, Bake-house | 7 | |
| „ Mortuary or Dead-house almost daily | - | |
| „ Provision Markets every Saturday | - | |
| ,, Churches, Chapels and Schools | 1 | |
| „ Factories, Work-rooms and other Public Institutions | 7 | |
| „ Small-Pox Conveyance used | 4 | |
| II.—Systematic Sanitary Inspection of Dwellings | Houses and Premises visited and inspected | 171 |
| Re-inspections | 92 | |
| Orders issued for Sanitary Works | 92 | |
| Works excuted | 85 | |
| Formal Orders issued by the Vestry | 4 | |
| III.— Attendances upon Magistrates, Surveyor, at the Police,Coroner's Courts, and Licensing Meetings. | Attendences | 7 |
| Summones | 7 | |
| For obtaining Summonses | 7 | |
| „ hearing „ | - | |
| Letters written and received | 32 |
Nuisances and Complaints during the Quarter ending
September 25th, 1869.
The register book of complaints and nuisances contains 174 cases, which admit of the following classification:—
| Defects of drainage and untrapped gulleys. | 32 |
| „ „ water supply | 6 |
| Dirty state of premises, water closets, urinals, stagnant water, percolations, &c | 38 |
| Offensive trades, marine stores, frying of fish, ballast burning bad meat, &c. | 24 |
| Overcrowding and bad ventilation | — |
| Smoke nuisances | 2 |
| Animals being dirtily kept, and noises from | 4 |
| Smells from the Canal Basin | — |
| Accumulation and deposit of manure, garbage, | |
| refuse, dust, dung, &c | 50 |
| Smells from decaying and putrid substances . | 1 |
| Defective cleansing of Roadways | — |
| Dangerous Structure | — |
| Miscellaneous other complaints | 17 |
| 174 |
These Complaints received almost immediate attention.