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REPORT OF INSPECTOR THOS. ASHDOWN.
Sanitary Department,
Town Hall, Westminster,
May 12th, 1891.
To the Medical Officer of Health,
Sir,
Herein I beg to submit to you the report on the sanitary
work done by me in the parish of St. Margaret during the past
year, ending March 25th, 1891:—
Number of visits paid to ground proceedings 1587
„ „ slaughterhouses 9
„ „ cowhouses 6
„ „ bakehouses 30
„ of complaints from the Inhabitants' Complaints
Book 9
Number of Notifications 220
„ of Orders from the Medical Officer of Health 8
Number of notices served to remedy the undermentioned
sanitary defects, 678:—
W.c.'s supplied from drinking water cisterns 129
W.c.'s without water supplies 67
W.c.'s dirty, defective, or not ventilated 157
New cisterns for domestic purposes 5
Cisterns without covers 7
Cisterns and butts foul 65
Overflow-pipes from cisterns to drains 37
Waste-pipes from sinks to drains 103
Water apparatus defective 107
Dust-bins defective or new ones required 43
Rooms dirty 236
Passages or staircases dirty 70
Rooms overcrowded 18
Houses or rooms requiring disinfection 178
Underground rooms illegally occupied 6
Drains stopped 52
Defective brick or pipe drains 154
Defective traps to drains 177
Yard paving defective 27
Walls of yards or wash-houses to whitewash 28
Stables or cowsheds dirty or defective in respect to
drainage 1
Accumulations of refuse 75
Bakehouses dirty 6
Miscellaneous 165
Total of defects 1913