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St Saviour's (Southwark) 1859

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for St. Saviour's]

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not indebted to any accidental or occasional excess of deaths elsewhere.
For, in the Report of the Registrar-General, we are informed
that the per-centage of deaths —both in the whole of London, and
in its Southern Districts - was not only absolutely less last year than
in the previous one, but less also than the mean mortality of the
preceding seventeen years-
In a Table set apart to that purpose, I have made a Report of
that portion of our work which probably is the most onerous and ungracious
to perform, as well as the most serviceable to the great
business of sanitary improvements, as to its ultimate effect. You
will understand that I am referring to those visits of inspection in
which so many of the causes of unhealthiness are detected and destroyed
before the opportunity has been allowed them to beget disease.
It is a great pleasure to m e to have to acknowledge, in reference to
this duty how much I have been indebted to the quick intelligence and
watchful diligence of your Inspector of Nuisances, by whose aid
much of the sanitary improvements have been carried out.

Houses inspected and improved, and Nuisances removed, in the the Parish of Christchurch, South wark, from the 1st of January, 1859, to December 31st, inclusive

Number of houses inspected.Number of notices issued.Cesspools emptied, filled up, and drained into sewer.Privies cleansed, panned, and trapped.Summonses heard by Magistrate.Sinks in yards trapped.Defective drainage inspected and made good.Offensive smell in houses.Dung and filth removed.No privy accommodation.Dirty houses lime-whited and properly cleansed.Dangerous houses taken down and re-builtOffensive privy pans cleansed out.Stagnant water and filth removed.!Number of dust complaints and neg lects of the dustmen attended to.Number of visits paid, (approximate).Dilapidated houses cleansed and repaired.Houses drained into sewer.Urinals cleansed.
90 |70141311174311422013392402046