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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 March 25th, 1871.

I.—Inspections consequent on Nuisances, Complaints, and Offensive and Injurious Trades.Houses and Places Inspected with respect to their Sanitary State655
Orders issued for Sanitary Works330
Works done300
Work in progress26
Inspections of offensive Trades18
„ Mews and Manure Wharves30
„ Cow-houses23
„ Slaughter-houses32
„ Bake-houses14
„ Mortuary or Dead-house almost daily
„ Provision Markets every Saturday
„ Churches, Chapels and Schools12
„ Factories, Work-rooms and other Public Institutions150
„ Fever Small-Pox Conveyance used64
II.—Systematic Sanitary Inspection of DwellingsHouses and Premises visited and inspected308
Re-inspections350
Orders issued for Sanitary Works360
Works executed351
Fomal Orders issued by the Vestry12
III.— Attendances upon Magistrates, Surveyor, at the Police,Coroner's -> Courts, and Licensing Meetings.Attendances12
Summonses
For obtaining Summonses-
„ hearing „-
Letters written60