Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
Report on the vital and sanitary statistics of the Borough of Lambeth during the year 1905
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non-provided schools—continued.
School and Ward. | SANITARY CONVENIENCES. | Drains. | Remarks (if any). | Class. | |||||||||||||||||||
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Closet Accommodation. | Lavatories and Sinks. | Urinals. | |||||||||||||||||||||
Situation. | Nature. | Condition. | Condition. | Material. | Flushing Arrangements. | Condition. | Interception from Sewer. | Ventilation. | Means of access Manholes. | Result of Test. | |||||||||||||
Outside | w.c.s and troughs | Bad | Good | Slate | None | Bad | No | No | No | None | Lavatory basins not un-dertrapped; girls' and boys' closet buildings are insufficiently ventilated; brick dust-bin inside one of the closet buildings; trough closets improperly flushed | III. | |||||||||||
Lambeth Road Wesleyan) | Outside (2 w.c.s inside) | w.c.s | Good | Bad | Cement and Slate | Yes; (stop tap to outside boys; the inside boys' being un-flushed) | Ba | Yes | No | Yes, Boys' w.c.s and urinal and in yard adjoining Girls' schoolroom | Defective paving of yard of outside urinal; obsolete valve closet (girls' teachers) inside; un-flushed urinal inside boys' building, and communicating directly with senior mixed school-room; insufficient lavatory basins provided | III | |||||||||||
Prince's Road (St. Mary-the-Less) | Outside | troughs | Good | Bad | Cement and Slate | Yes | Good | No | No | No | Yes, inside Girls' school, and in the cloakrooms of both schls. | Rain-water pipes (girls' school) are apparently connected directly with the drain (insufficient lavatory accommodation | III. | ||||||||||
Reedworth Street (Archbishop Sumner, St Phillip's) | Outside (Boys' trough and urinal inside on 1st floor) | troughs | Bad | Bad | Cement and Slate | None Yes | Bad Bad | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes; in yard and in Girls' closet | 4 Lavatory basins are not undertrapped, and discharge over urinal gully | III. | ||||||||||
Outside | w.c.s | Good | Good | Asphalt | Yes | Good | Yes | Yes | Yes | None | ... | I. | |||||||||||
Gye Street (St. Paul's) | Inside (1 infants' w.c. outside) | w.c.s (syphonic ranges inside) | Good | No lavatories | Slate | None to boys | Bad | Yes | Yes | Yes | None | Defective paving of boys' playground; defective rain-water pipes,causing dampness in certain walls; premises dirty; defective mica inlet; broken air-bricks to ground floor; no lavatory basins fixed | III. | ||||||||||
Harleyford Road (St. Ann's) | Outside (1 w.c. inside) | w.c.s | Good | Good | Cement | Yes (stop tap) | Good | Yes | Yes | Yes | None | Lavatory basins not undertrapped; drinking fountain in playground is out of order | I. | ||||||||||
Kennington Oval (St. Mark's) | Outside | w.c.s and Bad troughs (trou-ghs) | Good | Cement | None | Bad | Yes | Yes | Yes | None | Defective ventilating pipe, back front of schoolmistress's house; insufficient flushing to trough closets; lavatory basins not under-trapped; want of, and defective, paving in boys' and girls' playgrounds; large brick dustbin adjoining the school | II. |