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Paddington 1871

[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 done1030
Works in progress35
Inspections of Offensive Trades30
„ Mews and Manure Wharves26
„ Cow-houses24
„ Slaughter-houses50
„ Bake-houses6
„ Mortuary or Dead-house almost daily
„ Provision Markets every Saturday
„ Churches, Chapels and Schools6
„ Factories, Work-rooms and other Public Institutions14
„ Fever and Small-Pox Conveyance used .41
II.—Systematic Sanitary Inspection of DwellingsHouses and Premises visited and inspected579
lie-inspections1137
Orders issued for Sanitary Works*224
Works executed200
Formal Orders issued by the Vestry25
III.— Attendances upon Magistrates, Surveyor, at the Police,Coroner's Courts, and Licensing Meetings.Attendances12
Summonses8
For obtaining Summonses17
„ hearing „
Letters written201