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 |