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St Pancras 1921

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for St. Pancras, Metropolitan Borough]

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Table No . 11.— Intimations as to Nuisances and Breaches of Statutes and By-laws served by the Sanitary Inspectors during1921,and the resultingStatutory Noticesin 1921and the early part of1922.

Schedule of Nuisances.Intimations.Statutory Notices.
1. Part of the house in a dirty condition1,460480
2. Part of the house in a damp condition25094
3. Roof defective1,028364
4. Guttering defective18976
5. Water fittings defective25168
6. Water-closet apartment with absence of external ventilation4512
7. Water-closet apartment so foul as to be a nuisance or dangerous to health296
8. Water-closet basin foul7825
9. Water-closet defective11932
10. Water-closet choked14223
11. Urinal in a foul condition
12. Privy in a foul condition1
13. Soil pipe defective4213
14. Soil pipe unventilated156
15. Soil pipe improperly ventilated84
16. Absence of waste pipe to sink, lavatory or bath21
17. Waste pipe of sink, lavatory, or bath connected with drain94
18. Waste pipe of sink, lavatory, or bath defective11238
19. Waste pipe of sink, lavatory or bath foul317
20. Inlet of drain improperly trapped114
21. Drain defective14253
22. Drain stopped17334
23. Drain ventilating pipe defective7224
24. Rain-water pipe in direct communication with drain318
25. Rain-water pipe defective19761
26. Unpaved condition of roadway—.
27. Undrained condition of roadway
28. Area or part unpaved3
29. Area undrained1
30. Yard or space unpaved53
31. Yard or space undrained1
32. Defective condition of washhouse paving10237
33. Dust-bin defective569144
34. Dust-bin in an improper position41
35. Accumulation of stagnant water which is a nuisance dangerous to health196
36. Accumulation or deposit which is a nuisance dangerous to health14228
37. Animals kept in such a manner as to be a nuisance dangerous to health364
38. Part of the house so overcrowded as to be dangerous to health2710
39. Space below floor in basement or ground floor insufficiently ventilated113
40. Issuing of black smoke in such a quantity as to be a nuisance2
41. Discharging smoke in such a manner as to cause part of a building to be a nuisance dangerous to health31
42. Tent, van, shed, or similar structure used as a human habitation which is in such a state as to be injurious or dangerous to the health of the inmates
43. Other nuisances827309
Total6,1891,983