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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

Port of London 1907

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Port of London]

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Table: TABLE XXIV.Part I.Sanitary Works and Alterations in connection with Buildings, Premises and Vessels within the Docks, &c., completed during the year :—

TABLE XXIV.

Part I.

Sanitary Works and Alterations in connection with Buildings, Premises and Vessels within the Docks, &c., completed during the year :—

Date completed.Works.
1907. Feb. 4Construction of main drain in Tilbury Dock, by Orsett Rural District Council.
March 23Construction of new lavatories and water-closets for the Clerical Staff employed at the West India Docks Naval Store Depot.
May 1Construction of lavatory and water-closet at a tailor's shop in Royal Albert Dock by Mr. A. Goldberg.
„ 21Construction of two Moule's Patent earth-closets at Messrs. Jenkins and Co.'s, Ltd., premises, Royal Albert Dock.
July 5Construction of water-closet, urinal and drainage connected therewith in the vicinity of the Canadian Produce Warehouses West, Surrey Commercial Dock.
5Construction of water-closet, urinal and drainage connected therewith at Swedish Yard, Surrey Commercial Dock.
Oct. 22Removal of urinal from inside to outside of Customs' Clerical Office, Rum Quay, West India Dock, and the construction of a 4-inch drain in connection therewith.
26Re-construction of drainage at Great Western Railway Company's Warehouses, Poplar Dock.
Part II. Sanitary Works and alterations, not yet reported as completed
Date Plan submitted.Works.
1907. July 4Connections proposed to be made by the London and India Docks Company to the sewer which has been laid by the Orsett Rural District Council in Tilbury Dock.
„ 31Proposed conversion of cess-pit closets into water closets, in Albion and Station Yards, Surrey Commercial Dock.