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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 1893
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Paddington]
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Report of the Work of the Sanitary Department completed in the Quarter ending 30th December, 1893.
| Paddington. | No. of Complaints received during Year. | No. of Houses, Premises, &c., inspected, and re-inspections. | Results of Inspection. | House Drains. | Privies and Water Closets. | Dust Bins. | W ater Supply. | Miscellaneous. | |||||||||||||||||||
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| Orders issued for Sanitary Amenments of Houses and Premises. | Houses and Premises, &c., Cleansed, Repaired, and Whitewashed. | Houses Disinfected after Infectious Diseases. | Repaired, Cleansed, and New. | Trapped or Ventilated. | Repaired, Cleansed, &c. | Supplied with Water. | New provided. | New provided. | Repaired, Covered, &c. | Cisterns (new) erected. | Separate Water Supply provided. | Cisterns Cleansed, Repaired, and Covered. | Houses disinhabited. | Underground Dwellings disinhabited. | Removal of accumulation of Dung, Stagnant Water, Animal, and other Refuse. | Removal of Animals improperly kept. | Regularly Inspected. | Other Proceedings, e.g. Legal Proceedings. | Waste-pipes and Rain-water Pipes disconnected from Drain. | No. of Cases of Overcrowding abated. | External Ventilation to W.C. provided. | Water Supply to Premises reinstated. | |||||
| Bakehouses. | Licensed Cowhouses. | Licensed Slaughterhouses. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Total | 511 | 3,294 | 203 | 65 | 366 | 121 | 210 | 50 | 26 | .. | 5 | 10 | .. | 57 | 15 | 3 | 4 | 17 | .. | 71 | 3 | 10 | 4 | 115 | 11 | 5 | 6 |
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