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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
Hampstead 1909
Report for the year 1909 of the Medical Officer of Health
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Sanitary Works Carried Out. The following is a tabulated statement of the sanitary work, etc., carried out during the year, so far as that work admits of tabulation:—
| General Condition— | |
| Houses or parts of houses cleansed | 192 |
| Dampness in houses or parts of houses abated | 98 |
| Dilapidated houses or parts of houses repaired | 82 |
| Overcrowding— | |
| Cases of, abated (rooms) after service of notice | 5 |
| ,, ,, „ without service of notice | 2 |
| Underground rooms— | |
| Ceased to be occupied as separate dwellings | 23 |
| Below floors— | |
| Spaces below floors in the basement or ground floors ventilated | 72 |
| Roofs— | |
| Repaired | 122 |
| Gutterings— | |
| Repaired or renewed | 122 |
| Rainwater pipes— | |
| Repaired or renewed | 178 |
| Disconnected from drains | 82 |
| „ „ soil pipes | 11 |
| Waste pipes— | |
| Waste pipe of sinks disconnected from drains | 1 |
| „ „ „ trapped | 364 |
| „ „ „ repaired or renewed | 308 |
| „ ,, ,, unstopped | 10 |
| „ ,, of lavatories disconnected from drains | 3 |
| „ „ „ trapped | 216 |
| ,, „ ,, repaired or renewed | 204 |
| ,, „ of baths disconnected from drains | 3 |
| „ „ „ trapped | 150 |
| „ ,, „ repaired or renewed | 125 |
| Water supply— | |
| Houses provided with proper water supply | 62 |
| Water provided to upper floors of tenement houses | 85 |
| Water supplies used for domestic purposes disconnected from cisterns for flushing w.c.'s | 1 |