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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. | ||||||||||
| Outside | troughs | Good | No lavatories | Slate | Yes (stop tap) | Good | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes, in the school room and in the w.c. | Closet buildingsare badly lighted and ventilated. No lavatories are provided. | III. | ||||||||
| Heme Hill Road (St. Saviour's) | Outside (1 w.c. inside the Head Mistress's house adjoining the school) | w.c.s | Bad | Bad | Slate | Yes (stop tap) | Bad | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes, infants' w.c. | Fittings of w.c.s are defective and the pans badly situated and not sufficiently protected; w.c. accommodation insufficient, and no separate w.c. accommodation for boys and girls; defective and foul enamelled iron basins (plugs); school premises are dirty throughout | III. | |||||||
| Railton Road (St. Jude's) | Outside (2 w.c.s inside the adjoining Mission Hall) | w.c.s and troughs | Bad | Good (but insufficient) | Cement | Yes (stop top) | Good | Yes | Yes | Yes | None | Troughs not properly at-tended to; lavatory basins not under-trapped and insufficient in number; one loose-washing tin also in use as a lavatory basin | III. | |||||||
| Outside (2 w.c.s inside for use of teachers, situated on 1st floor of centre hall between chapel and school) | w.c.s and troughs | Good | Good | Slate and Cement | Yes | Good | Yes | Yes | Yes | None | One Lavatory basin, which is undertrapped, discharges into gully of urinal; unventilated inside soil-pipe (male teachers'); other lavatory basins are not undertrapped; trough systems are connected so that when one acts there is a tendency for the water of the other to be syphoned out also | II. | ||||||||
| Trent Road (Roman Catholic) | Outside | w.c.s | Good | Good | Slate | Yes | Good | Yes | Yes | Yes | None | ... | I. | |||||||
| Outside | w.c and troughs | Bad | No lavatories | Cement | None | Bad | Yes | Yes | Yes | None | Defective paving in boys' playground; no fixed lavatories are provided | II. | ||||||||
| *Elder Road (St. Luke's) | Outside | w.c and troughs | Bad | Good | Slate | Yes | Good | Yes | Yes | Yes | None | Playground unpaved mostly, and, where paved, defective; dan-gerons and dilapidated girls' school premises; two old basins, used for washing purposes, are in a dilapidated enclosure, and not under-trapped (discharging into iron pipe); one long-hopper w.c. (caretaker's) | III. | |||||||
[* N.B.— The Girls School is carried on in the Elder Road Mission Hall, which is provided with 3 w.c.s (2 outside and 1 inside), and a
slate urinal (fitted with sparge pipe and stop-cock). No result was obtained from the test. No fixed lavatory basin.]