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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
Lambeth 1905
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. | |||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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. | |||||
| Regency Square (St. James's) | Outside (1 w.c. inside) | w.c.s | Bad | Good | Slate | Yes | Good | Yes | Yes | Yes; caretaker's w.c. | Playground insufficiently paved; several defective gutters; defective air bricks to ground floor; sanitary conveniences are dirty & not properly looked after; one inside w.c. (long hopper), is insufficiently flushed; insufficient urinal accommodation (the wall of the w.c. building being used in place of urinal) | III. | |||
| Sancroft Street (St. Mary-the-Less) | Outside | troughs | Good | Bad | Slate | Yes (stop tap) | Bad | No | No | Nc | None | Dirty walls and ceilings of classrooms; defective paving of playground; uncovered dustbin; defective fittings to lavatory basins | III. | ||
| St. Oswald's Place (St. Peter's) | Outside (3 w.c.s inside and 1 w.c. inside caretaker's house) | w.c.s and troughs | Bad | Bad | Slate | T None (except stop-tap in boys) | Bad | No. | Yes | Yes | Yes; inside soil pipe in caretaker's house | Rain- water pipe connected direct to the drain in St. Oswald's Place; premises are dirty generally, as also the sanitary conveniences; defective roof and guttering; defective air bricks on ground floor; brick dustbin near boys' urinal; defective paving near boys' urinal | |||
| outside (1 w.c. inside for teachers) | w.c.s | Bad | Good | Slate and Cement | None | Bad | Ptly | Ptly | Ptly | Yes; in yard and inside school | 3 foul long hopper pans in boys' department; bath waste from school teacher's house discharges on to flat over entrance porch to school in Devonshire Road; unpaved playground | II. | |||
| Dorset Road, (St. Stephen's) | Outside | troughs | Bad | No lavatories | Slate | Yes (but only stop ap for (inf'nts) | Good | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes (boys' schoolroom) | No lavatory basins provided ; rain-water pipes at rear of girls' and infants' schoolrooms not properly disconnected | III. | ||
| Gaskell Street(St. John Bowyer's) | Outside | w.c.s | Good | Good | Cement | Yes (stoptap) | Good | Yes | Yes | Yes | None | from drain No proper separate teachers' w.c.s provided; no caretaker's house provided at the school; drinking water from cistern which is uncovered | I. | ||
[*Two separate systems of drainage—one draining into Devonshire Road, and one into Priory Road, sewers. The former is
intercepted and ventilated, and appears to be in good order and condition; the latter is neither ventilated nor intercepted, and gave no
result with the test.]