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Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
Paddington 1872
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Paddington]
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TABLE III.
Summary of Sanitary Work, Quarter ending March 30th, 1872.
| I,— Inspections consequent on Nuisances, Complaints, and Offensive and Injurious Trades. | Houses stables and Mews Inspected | 337 |
| Orders issued for Sanitary Works | 235 | |
| Works done | 193 | |
| Works in progress | 29 | |
| Inspection of Offensive Trades | 17 | |
| „ Manure Wharves | 30 | |
| „ Sundry Inspections since February Cow-houses | 13 | |
| „ Slaughter-houses | 24 | |
| „ Bake-houses | 3 | |
| „ Mortuary or Dead-house almost daily | — | |
| „ Provision Markets every Saturday | — | |
| „ Churches, Chapels and Schools | 3 | |
| „ Factories, Work-rooms and other Public | 7 | |
| „ Fever and Small-Pox Conveyance used . | 28 | |
| II— Systematic Sanitary Inspection of Dwellings | Houses and Premises visited and inspected | 613 |
| Re-inspection | 705 | |
| Orders issued for Sanitary works | 312 | |
| Works executed | 280 | |
| Formal Orders issued by the Vestry | 24 | |
| III.— Attendances upon Magistrates, Surveyor, at the Police, Coroner's Courts, and Licensing Meetings. | Attendances | 1 |
| Summonses | 4 | |
| For obtaining Summonses hearing | 1 1 | |
| Letters written and received | 55 |
Nuisances and Complaints during the Quarter ending
March 30th, 1872.
The register book of complaints and nuisances contains
195 cases, which admit of the following classification:—
Defects of drainage and untrapped gulleys. 54
„ „ water supply 7
Dirty state of premises, water closets, urinals,
stagnant water, percolations, &c 32
Offensive trades, marine stores, frying of fish,
ballast burning, bad meat, &c. 5
Overcrowding and bad ventilation 5
Smoke nuisances 4
Animals being dirtily kept, and noises from . 4
Smells from the Canal Basin —
Accumulation and deposit of manure, garbage,
refuse, dust, dung, &c 22
Smells from decaying and putrid substances . 13
Defective cleansing of Roadways 12
Dangerous Structures and Places unfit 10
Miscellaneous, & cases of Contagious diseases
reported 27
Total 195
These complaints received almost immediate attention.