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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
Barking 1898
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Barking]
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Inspection of District—
| Sanitary Improvements Required. | ||
|---|---|---|
| Barking Place | Several cases of Typhoid Fever have recently occurred here. The drains having been examined and found defective, need re-laying and ventilating. | |
| Back Lane | The main sewer needs ventilating. The defects in some of this property have been rectified, but much yet remain) to be done. | |
| Whites Court | All the houses here except one have been re-constructed so as to form a Mission Room. The drains have been re-laid and ventilated. | |
| Bifron's Square | More and suitable w. c. accommodation. Paving round the houses. Drains haviug been examined and found defective, need re-laying and ventilating. | |
| Garden Place . | The drains to these properties have beeu | |
| re-laid and ventilated. Extra w.c. | ||
| Suffolk Place | ||
| accommodation has been provided, | ||
| Wellington Buildings | ||
| and flushing cisterns attached. The | ||
| Parson's Buildings | ||
| yards still urgently need to be properly paved. | ||
| Padnell Place | ||
| Lindsell's Court | This has been voluntarily closed for some months; the houses are not fit for human habitation in their present state. | |
| Altoft's (formerly Orchard) | The drains in this court have been re- | |
| Avenue | laid and ventilated throughout. The court itself is in a most deplorable condition of mud and filth. Plans and specifications have been prepared in accordance with the 160th sectiou of the Public Health Act, 1875. Work will be commenced shortly. | |
| Gas Yard | Instructions given to make up, &c. under 150th section, Public Health Act, 1875. | |
| Morgan's Yard | Drain having been examined, needs relaying and ventilating, and the surface of the court paving. | |
| Morgan's Quay | The private drains of this property need attention. | |