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 September 30th, 1871.
| I.—Inspections consequent on Nuisances, Complaints, and Offensive and Injurious Trades. | Houses and Places Inspected with respect to their Sanitary State | |
| Orders issued for Sanitary Works* | 1065 | |
| Works done | 1030 | |
| Works in progress | 35 | |
| Inspections of Offensive Trades | 30 | |
| „ Mews and Manure Wharves | 26 | |
| „ Cow-houses | 24 | |
| „ Slaughter-houses | 50 | |
| „ Bake-houses | 6 | |
| „ Mortuary or Dead-house almost daily | — | |
| „ Provision Markets every Saturday | — | |
| „ Churches, Chapels and Schools | 6 | |
| „ Factories, Work-rooms and other Public Institutions | 14 | |
| „ Fever and Small-Pox Conveyance used . | 41 | |
| II.—Systematic Sanitary Inspection of Dwellings | Houses and Premises visited and inspected | 579 |
| lie-inspections | 1137 | |
| Orders issued for Sanitary Works* | 224 | |
| Works executed | 200 | |
| Formal Orders issued by the Vestry | 25 | |
| III.— Attendances upon Magistrates, Surveyor, at the Police,Coroner's Courts, and Licensing Meetings. | Attendances | 12 |
| Summonses | 8 | |
| For obtaining Summonses | 17 | |
| „ hearing „ | — | |
| Letters written | 201 |