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 VI.
Inspector's Report of the Sanitary Work, &c.-, completed in the Year ending March, 1881.
Paddington.
No. of Complaints received during year.
No. of Houses, Premises, &c., inspected.
Results of
Inspection.
House
Drains.
Privies and
Water Closets.
Dust
Bins.
Water
Supply.
Miscellaneous.
Regularly
Inspected.
Other Proceedings, e.g. Legal Proceedings.
Orders issued for Sanitary Amendments of Houses
and Premises.
Houses and Premises, &c., Cleansed, Repaired, and
Whitewashed.
Houses Disinfected after Infectious Diseases.
Repaired, Cleansed, &c.
Trapped or Ventilated.
Repaired, Cleansed, &c.
Supplied with Water.
New provided.
New provided.
Repaired, Covered, &c.
Cisterns (new) erected.
Cisterns Cleansed, Repaired, and Covered.
No. of Lodging Houses registered under 35th Clause
of Sanitary Act, 1866.
No. of Dust Complaints received and attended to.
Removal of accumulation of Dung, Stagnant Water,
Animal, and other Refuse.
Removal of Animals improperly kept.
Bakehouses.
Licensed Cowhouses.
Licensed Slaughterhouses.
Total
1010
11,970
749
605
224
165
101
118
118
-
11
187
6
53
-
-
52
1
83
13
23
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TABLE V.
Disease. | 1870. | 1871. | 1872. | 1873. | 1874. | 1875. | 1876. | 1877. | 1678. | 1879. | Annual Average of 10 years, 1870-1879. | Proportion of Deaths to 1,000 Deaths in 10 years, 1870-1879. | 1880. | Proportion of Deaths to 1,000 Deaths in 1880. |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Smallpox | 2 | 2 | 15 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0.0 | |||||||
Measles | 11 | 91 | 39 | 27 | 29 | 41 | 24.6 | |||||||
Scarlet Fever | 108 | 35 | 32 | 42 | 67 | 40 | 24.0 | |||||||
Diphtheria | 9 | 9 | 11 | 16 | 26 | 15 | 9.0 | |||||||
Whooping Cough | 63 | 60 | 69 | 74 | 61 | 49 | 29.4 | |||||||
Fever | 22 | 19 | 11 | 26 | 19 | 16* | 9.6 | |||||||
Diarrhœa | 68 | 70 | 50 | 52 | 38 | 67 | 40.2 | |||||||
Total | 283 | 286 | 227 | 240 | 243 | 228 | 136.8 | |||||||
London | 16,476 | 19,455 | 12,699 | 11,385 | 11,230 | 13,411 | 12,565 | 12,292 | 14,734 | 12,256 | 13,650 | 173-5 | 13,681 | 168.6 |
England & Wales | 100,527 | 103,801 | 91,743 | 70,402 | 88,200 | 82,332 | 75,506 | 66,558 | 84,624 | 62,020 | 82,571 | 1600 | Not published. | |
* Enteric (Typhoid), 13; Simple continued Fever, 3. |