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Paddington 1869

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Paddington]

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9
TABLE VI.
Systematic House to House Inspection.

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.Average Cubic Space in each Houso.Average Cubic Space for each person.Cubic Space of inhabited Dwellings.Average No. of D. Doors,W. Windows,C. Chimnies.Defects in Water supply.Defects in W.C. ApparatusDefects in Traps & DrainsDefects in Cleansing ofNo. of Sanitary Orders issued.
each house.each room.Yards.Houses
Courts leading out of Harrow Road.AlfredPlace(Harrow-Rd.)11172229365.93.651840312....1 .22312423
Vine Cottoges ( do.)561014145.62.8281760314....1 ..2 .2...22325 i
White Lion Place ( do. )13334864479.32.51212864307.8...2.5 .4...2i2...4
White Lion Passage (do.)107102293.13.1311309429....22 .225245
Newland Row7122825318.2.564533566....2.4 .4.........25
Carlton Piace (5)16286651576.71.71086024......2 .9 .63...25
Church Place (1)17761041423413 33.13265575419.3...2 .8 .65261011
Dudley Street (2)2671104139969.2.22353258369.4...2 .5 .4962213
Hermitage Street(3)2560165123607.31.11832329319.6...2 .4 .4113...2
Willing's Place(4)133864476310.72.21404522. . ....2 .6 .64436610
Kent's Place(5)835546365162.51286776......26 .6...4...35
4546
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The following notes are supplementary to the information given in above table:—
1. These houses are inhabited principally by persons engaged on the dust wharves, very dirty and poor. 5. Several cases of scarlet fever
have occurred here lately, formerly there was small-pox. Great improvement have been effected in them by sanitary works. Overcrowding also
abated. 2 & 3. These houses are getting very dilapidated, some are over-crowded, and the people very dirty. 4. There has been a good deal of
illness here at times, leas lately—the houses are overcrowed, people improvident. Many pauper cases have been treated here by the Parochial
Medical Officers.