Report on the health of Paddington for the quarter ending Midsummer, 1870 / by Wm. Hardwicke.

  • Hardwicke, William.
Date:
[1870]
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Report on the health of Paddington for the quarter ending Midsummer, 1870 / by Wm. Hardwicke. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.

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    TABLE III. Summary of Sanitary Work, Quarter ending June 25th, 1870. I.—Inspections consequent on Nuisances, Com- plaints, and Offensive and Injurious Trades. ' Houses and Places Inspected with respect to their Sanitary State Orders issued for Sanitary Works Works done Works in progress Inspections of Offensive Trades „ Mews and Manure Wharves „ Cow-houses „ Slaughter-houses „ Bake-houses • • • „ Mortuary or Dead-house almost daily .. „ Provision Markets every Saturday.. .... „ Churches, Chapels and Schools „ Factories, Work-rooms and other Public Institutions _ „ Small-Pox Conveyance used .. ......... 108 91 81 15 13 56 56 75 18 12 20 2 r II.—Systematic Sanitary Inspection of Dwellings Houses and Premises visited and inspected Re-inspections Orders issued for Sanitary Works Works executed Formal Orders issued by the Vestry 405 380 144 114 4 III,— Attendances upon ( Attendances 21 Magistrates, Surveyor, Summonses 1 at the Police,Coroner’s -{ For obtaining Summonses 2 Courts, and Licensing I „ hearing „ 1 Meetings, f Letters written 14 Nuisances and Complaints during the last Quarter ending June 25, 1870. The register book of complaints and nuisances contains 133 cases, which admit of the following classification :— Defects of drainage and untrapped gulleys. 28 „ „ water supply .... 2 Dirty state of premises, water closets, urinals, stagnant water, percolations, &c 12 Offensive trades, marine stores, frying of fish, ballast burning, bad meat, &c. 6 Overcrowding and bad ventilation ... ... 4 Smoke nuisances 3 Animals being dirtily kept, and noises from. 7 Smells from the Canal Basin ... 1 Accumulation and deposit of manure, garbage, refuse, dust, dung, &c. .... 38 Smells from decaying and putrid substances . 19 Defective cleansing of Roadways 5 Dangerous Structure 1 Miscellaneous other complaints 7 133 These Complaints received almost immediate attention.