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 IV.
Summary of Sanitary Work , Quarter ending September 28th, 1872.
—Inspections consequent on Nuisances andCom-plaints, Offensive and Injurious Trades, inspection of cases of Contagious Diseases. | Inspections of Offensive Trades, Marine Stores, &c. | 50 |
,, Nuisances and Manure Wharves | 29 | |
„ Cow-houses | 20 | |
„ Slaughter-houses | 22 | |
„ Bake -houses | ||
,, Mortuary or Dead-house almost daily | — | |
„ Provision Markets every Saturday | 10 | |
„ Churches, Chapels and Schools | 7 | |
„ Factories, Work-rooms and other Public Institutions | 8 | |
„ Cases of Contagious Diseases | 22 | |
,, Fever and Small-Pox Conveyance used 3 times Orders issued for Sanitary Works | 601 | |
Work done | 573 | |
II.— Systematic Sanitary Inspection of Dwellings, Mews and Stables. | Houses and premises visited and inspected | 1803 |
Re-inspections | 172 | |
Orders issued for Sanitary Works (38 Formal Orders of the Vestry) | 340 | |
Work executed | 74 | |
Work in progress | 66 | |
III.— Attendances upon Magistrates, Surveyor, at the Police,Coroner's -Courts, and Licensing Meetings. | Attendances | 20 |
Summonses | 2 | |
For obtaining Summonses | 2 | |
„ hearing „ | 2 | |
Letter written and received | 117 |
Nuisances and Complaints investigated during the Quarter
ending September 28th, 1872.
The register 244 cases, which admit of the following classification :—
Defects of drainage and untrapped gulleys. | 69 |
„ „ water supply | — |
Dirty state of premises, water closets, urinals, stagnant water, percolations, &c | 50 |
Offensive trades, marine stores, frying of fish, ballast burning, bad meat, and fruit | 4 |
Overcrowding and bad ventilation | 7 |
Smoke nuisances | 2 |
Animals being dirtily kept, and noises from | 13 |
Smells from the Canal Basin | 13 |
Accumulation and deposit of manure, garbage, refuse, dust, dung, &c | 39 |
Smells from decaying and putrid substances . | 28 |
Defective cleansing of Roadways | 5 |
Dangerous Structures and Places unfit | 3 |
Miscellaneous, & cases of Contagious diseases reported | 11 |
Total | 244 |