Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for St. Pancras, London, Borough of]
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Intimations
Registered Tenement Houses—Breaches of By-laws. | Totals. |
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1 Overcrowding | 61 |
2 Inadequate water supply | 1 |
3 Contaminated water supply | — |
4 Foul closet, basin or trap | 41 |
5 Want of means of ventilation | — |
6 Want of annual cleansing | 81 |
7 Want of cleansing of the part or parts of premises used in common | 488 |
8 ,, „ „ in sole use | 411 |
9 „ room or part of dwelling | 105 |
10 Animals improperly kept | 1 |
11 Other breaches | 8 |
Total | 1197 |
Factories, Workshops, and Workplaces.—Breaches of Statutes. | Totals. |
1 Want of cleanliness | 66 |
2 Want of ventilation | 2 |
3 Want of air space, overcrowding | — |
4 Sanitary accommodation, absent or insufficient | 8 |
5 ,, ,, unsuitable or defective | 5 |
6 „ ,, not separate for sexes | 5 |
7 Want of drainage of floors | — |
8 Other nuisances | 4 |
9 Illegal occupation of underground bakehouse | — |
10 Breach of special sanitary requirements for bakehouses | 32 |
11 Failure as regards list of out-workers | — |
12 Giving out work to be done in premises which are unwholesome | — |
13 „ „ „ infected | — |
14 Allowing wearing apparel to be made in premises infected by scarlet fever or small-pox | |
— | |
15 Other contraventions | 3 |
Total | 125 |