London's Pulse: Medical Officer of Health reports 1848-1972
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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
Deptford 1915
Annual report on the health of the Metropolitan Borough of Deptford
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100
No, of
Application
1607 To build w.c's at Victoria Works, Grove Street and drain
into existing system.
1608 To build and drain w.c. on premises occupied by the London
Spinning Co., on the Canal Bank.
1609 To build additions to office and drain into existing combined
system at New Cross Station, S. E. & C. Railway.
1610 To build addition to Saw Mills, Reginald Place, and drain
into existing system.
1611 To build w.c. at workshop in Briant Street and at rear of
92 New Cross Road, and drain into existing system.
1615 To build w.c. at mews, rear of 25 New Cross Road, and
drain into existing system.
| Tenements. | Notes. | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Houses during the Year 1915. | No. comprised therein. | No. for which Certificates were | |||
| Granted. | Refused | Deferred. | |||
| 47 | 94 | 94 | — | — | — |
The Housing and Town Planning Act, 1909, now provides also
for the exemption of common lodging-houses for the working classes
from inhabited house duty by Section 35. In inspecting a common
lodging house for such a certificate weight is attached to the following
matters:—
1. The provision of two rooms for the occupation of the keeper or
of his deputy.
2. A sufficient supply of lockers, or other receptacles, with suitable
means of fastening, for clothes and for food storage.
3. A sufficient supply of kitchen utensils for cooking, for eating,
and for drinking.
4. The provision of lavatory basins, of facilities for washing
clothes, shirts and socks, and for foot-washing.