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Rotherhithe 1893

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Rotherhithe]

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Houses and Premises inspected 1796
Complaints received 777
Notices served for Abatement of Nuisances 1467
Infectious cases removed to Hospital 175
HOUSES &c., disinfected 312
Bedding and Clothes purified lots 135
Bedding destroyed and Compensation
allowed lots 174
Summonses issued for abatement of
Nuisances 46
Magistrate's Orders obtained 8
Bodies removed to mortuary, awaiting
interment 4
Fish condemned and destroyed—1 barrel of skate, ½-trunk of skate, 6 boxes of kippers,
2 lots various. About 1 ton of damaged grain was removed from St. Mary's Granary,
St. Marychurch Street and charged as trade refuse.
I am, Gentlemen,
Your obedient Servant,
JOSEPH EDWARDS, Sanitary Inspector.
REPORT OF ALFRED CARTER, Temporary Assistant Sanitary Inspector.
Vestry Offices, Lower Road,
3rd February, 1894.
Gentlemen,
My appointment as Temporary Assistant Sanitary Inspector having now expired
consequent upon the resolution passed at your meeting held on the 16th ult., I beg to submit
for your esteemed consideration a detailed statement of the work done during such appointment
The number of houses and premises inspected is somewhat lower than would otherwise have
been the case, owing to my having been from the first engaged upon the older and more
insanitary portion of the Parish.
Houses and Premises inspected 755
Number of Houses on which Nuisances
were found 739
Number of Notices served 741
Number of Notices complied with 622
The greater part of the notices not complied with are in hand, and will in due course be
finished.
(Signed) ALFRED CARTER.