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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 IV.
Summary of Sanitary Work , Quarter ending December 28th, 1872.
| I.—Inspections consequent on Nuisances and Com-plaints, Offensive and Injurious Trades, inspection of cases of Contagious Diseases. | Inspections of Offensive Trades, Marine Stores, &c. | 50 |
| „ Nuisances and Manure Wharves | 220 | |
| „ Cow-houses | 14 | |
| „ Slaughter-houses | 28 | |
| „ Bake-houses | 12 | |
| „ Mortuary or Dead-house almost daily | — | |
| „ Provision Markets every Saturday | — | |
| „ Churches, Chapels and Schools | 4 | |
| „ Factories, Work-rooms and other Public Institutions | 8 | |
| „ Cases of Contagious Disease | ||
| „ Fever and Small-Pox Conveyance used 4 times Orders issued for Sanitary Works | - | |
| „ Works done | — | |
| II.—Systematic Sanitary Inspection of Dwellings, Mews End Stables. | Houses and Premises visited and inspected | 426 |
| Re-inspections | 760 | |
| Orders issued for Sanitary Works (16 Formal Orders of the Vestry) | ||
| Works executed | 400 | |
| Works in progress | 26 | |
| III.— Attendances upon Magistrates, Surveyor, at the Police,Coroner's Courts, and Licensing Meetings. | Attendances | 12 |
| Summonses | 4 | |
| For obtaining Summonses | 2 | |
| „ hearing „ | — | |
| Letters written and received | 79 |
Nuisances and Complaints investigated during the Quarter
ending December 28th, 1872.
The register of 183 cases, admits of the following classification:—
Defects of drainage and untrapped gulleys. 38
„ „ water supply 16
Dirty state of premises, water closets, urinals,
stagnant water, percolations, &c 30
Offensive trades, marine stores, frying of fish,
ballast burning, bad meat, and fruit 3
Overcrowding and bad ventilation 12
Smoke nuisances
Animals being dirtily kept, and noises from 14
Smells from the Canal Basin
Accumulation and deposit of manure, garbage,
refuse, dust, dung, &c 20
Smells from decaying and putrid substances 13
Defective cleansing of Roadways 10
Dangerous Structures and Places unfit 3
Miscellaneous, & cases of Contagious diseases
reported 24
Total 183