London's Pulse: Medical Officer of Health reports 1848-1972

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Paddington 1873

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Paddington]

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Sanitary Work during each Month of the Year.
Number of Orders issued during the year 1873-4 :—
April 210 October 86
May 195 November 131
June 95 December 102
July 140 January 134
August 120 February 113
September 130 March 121
890 687
Total 1,577.
Vestry Orders, 69; that is, Orders, where work had
not been executed by a preliminary Order.
The Wharves on the Canal Basin, which on account
of the offensive trades carried on, are inspected daily
Sundays included.
Markets of fruit and fish stalls are visited on the
Saturday nights.
Fish, meat and rabbits condemned, about 12-cwt.
of Dutch plaice; 50-lbs. of butchers meat; 50 Ostend
rabbits; 2-cwt. of salt cod, &c.
Fever Ambulance.
Number of times used during the years ending
December, 1872 and 1873:—
1872. 1873.
To Stockwell Fever Hospital 8 15
,, St. Mary's Hospital 1 2
,, St. George's ,, — 1
„ Small Pox Hospital, Hampstead . 28
„ ,, Highgate 4
,, London Fever Hospital 1
,, Fever Hospital, Homerton 3
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