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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
Shoreditch 1895
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Shoreditch]
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30
SANITARY WORK.
The following table which has been compiled from the abstracts of their work
prepared by the sanitary inspectors, summarises the work done under the supervision
of the department dinting the year for the abatement of nuisances:—
TABLE XXV.
| Total Premises. | Total. | As compared with last year 1894. | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chief Inapt'r | Insp. Lear. | Insp. Quelch | Insp. Firth. | |||
| Glazed pipe drains provided in lieu of dilapidated brick drains in | 18 | 16 | 1 | 4 | 34 | 57 |
| Defectively constructed pipe drains repaired or relaid in | 170 | 135 | 110 | 229 | 644 | 970 |
| Drains provided where there were none before in | 58 | 7 | 15 | 55 | 135 | 104 |
| Rats infesting, and sewer gas impregnating (cured) in | 58 | 63 | 51 | 32 | 204 | 356 |
| Cesspools emptied and filled up in | a | 3 | 4 | 5 | 14 | 20 |
| Accumulation of sewage removed from | 34 | 30 | 13 | 42 | 119 | 156 |
| Stack pipes (having their heads dangerously close to bedroom windows, permitting sewer gas to pass into the dwellings) disconnected from drains in | 38 | 89 | 67 | 154 | 304 | 544 |
| Stack pipes provided in | 122 | 173 | 49 | 186 | 530 | 793 |
| Eaves, gutters provided in | 113 | 180 | 24 | 155 | 472 | 730 |
| Waste pipes of sinks within doors (untrapped and permitting sewer gas to impregnate the dwellings) have been securely trapped, or otherwise disconnected from drains, and have now their ends in the open.air and immediately over the yard sinks in | 124 | 141 | 139 | 193 | 597 | 745 |
| Back fronts re.pointed in | 100 | 42 | 20 | 119 | 281 | 368 |
| Roofs repaired in | 186 | 92 | 52 | 136 | 466 | 615 |
| Stairs repaired in | 104 | 39 | 38 | 67 | 248 | 428 |
| Floors repaired in | 108 | 29 | 82 | 197 | 416 | 504 |
| Ground Floors re.instated and ventilated in | 84 | 73 | 6 | 144 | 307 | 154 |
| Walls and ceilings cleansed, whitened and repaired throughout in | 187 | 28 | 7 | 66 | 288 | 409 |
| Ditto ditto in part in | 22 | 71 | 6 | 155 | 254 | 176 |
| Total number of rooms cleansed and repaired in | 915 | 491 | 679 | 437 | 2522 | 3105 |
| Sashes repaired in | 105 | 39 | 85 | 29 | 258 | 502 |
| Water.closets (foul and dilapidated) cleansed, repaired, and fitted to "Shoreditch Model" and with improved pans in | 123 | 198 | 209 | 121 | 651 | 1219 |
| Water restored or newly laid on to water closets in | 218 | 38 | 4 | 26 | 286 | 691 |
| Obstructions in water closets removed .. in | 6 | 28 | 25 | 25 | 84 | 70 |
| Water closets in close, dark, and otherwise injurious situations removed into light and air in | 16 | 35 | 75 | 48 | 120 | 131 |
| Water supplied direct from main in lieu of cisterns in | 6 | 26 | 20 | 11 | 63 | 144 |
| Leaking water.pipes, causing dampness, repaired in | 24 | 18 | 39 | 101 | 182 | 75 |
| Yards and areas and w.c.'s lime.washed in | 112 | 560 | 362 | 299 | 1233 | 1458 |
| Dust bins provided in | 71 | 163 | 54 | 148 | 436 | 760 |
| Yards paved imperviously with stone or cement concrete in | 138 | 207 | 93 | 192 | 630 | 905 |
| Areas and forecourts paved imperviously with stone or cement concrete in | 110 | 105 | 36 | 102 | 353 | 430 |
| Sculleries ditto ditto in | 52 | 63 | 56 | 115 | 286 | 385 |
| Premises unfit for habitation closed in | 34 | 1 | 6 | 0 | 41 | 21 |
| Damp courses provided in | 98 | 10 | 73 | 68 | 249 | 119 |
| Dung bins provided in | 1 | 8 | 3 | 3 | 15 | 19 |