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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
St Pancras 1908
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for St. Pancras, London, Borough of]
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5.—Other Matters.
| Class. | Number. | |
|---|---|---|
| Matters notified to H.M. Inspectors of Factories : — | ||
| Failure to affix Abstract of the Factory and Workshop Act | 6 | |
| Action taken in matters referred by H.M. Inspector as remediable under the Public Health | Notified by H.M. Inspector Reports (of action taken) sent to H.M. Inspector | 5 |
| Acts, but not under the Factory and Workshop Act Other | ||
| 5 | ||
| Underground Bakehouses | ||
§ 6.—WATER SUPPLY AND WATER SERVICE.
Metropolitan Water Board.
Number of Notices, as to houses from which water has been cut off : —
| 1.—Demolition | 13 |
| 2.—Empty | 54 |
| 3.—Leakage | 13 |
| 4.—Non-payment of Rates | 6 |
| 5.—No statement | 7 |
| 93 |
Water supply to tenement houses.—Under Part IV., § 3 (h) of the Annual
Report for 1907, reference was made to Section 78 of the London County
Council (General Powers) Act, 1907, empowering the Sanitary Authority to
require water to he supplied on the storey or one of the storeys in which the
rooms or lodgings in the separate occupation of each family are situate in a
tenement house. In the same part, and section of this Annual Report reference
is made to the same subject.
§7.—DRAINAGE AND SEWERAGE.
Drainage Register.—The following is an analysis of the Drainage Register during 1908 : —
| Total number of Applications and Plans | .. | 837 |
| Number of Applications without Plans | 302 | |
| Number of Plans | 535 | ” |
| Plans—Old Buildings, under Notice | 255 | |
| Plans—Old Buildings, Voluntary | 238 | 535 |
| Plans—New Buildings, and additions | 42 |