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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 March 29th, 1873.
| 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 | 60 |
| „ Nuisances and Manure Wharves | 190 | |
| „ Cow-houses | 26 | |
| „ Slaughter-houses | 20 | |
| „ Bake-houses | 9 | |
| „ Mortuary or Dead-house almost daily | — | |
| „ Provision Markets every Saturday | 9 | |
| „ Churches, Chapels and Schools | 10 | |
| „ Factories, Work-rooms and other Public | 25 | |
| „ Cases of Contagious Diseases | ||
| „ Fever and Small-Pox Conveyance used 4 times Orders issued for Sanitary Works - | ||
| Works done | — | |
| II.—Systematic Sanitary Inspection of Dwellings, Mews and Stables. | Houses and premises visited and inspected | 874 |
| Re-inspections | 1570 | |
| Orders issued for Sanitary Works (26 Formal Orders of the Vestry) | 315 | |
| Works executed | 300 | |
| Works in Progress | 15 | |
| III.— Attendances upon Magistrates, Surveyor, at the Police,Coroner's Courts, and Licensing Meetings. | Attendances | 18 |
| Summonses | 4 | |
| For obtaining Summonses | 4 | |
| „ hearing | 6 | |
| Letters written and received | 119 | |
Nuisances and Complaints investigated during the Quarter
ending March 29th, 1873.
The register of 267 cases, admits of the following classification:—
Defects of drainage and untrapped gulleys. 6 7
„ „ water supply —
Dirty state of premises, water closets, urinals,
stagnant water, percolations, &c 56
Offensive trades, marine stores, frying of fish,
ballast burning, bad meat, and fruit 6
Overcrowding and bad ventilation 10
Smoke nuisances 4
Animals being dirtily kept, and noises from 18
Smells from the Canal Basin 6
Accumulation and deposit of manure, garbage,
refuse, dust, dung, &c 41
Smells from decaying and putrid substances 32
Defective cleansing of Roadways 5
Dangerous Structures and Places unfit 3
Miscellaneous, & cases of Contagious diseases
reported 19
Total 267