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 Bethnal Green]
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DETAILED SCHEDULE OF INSTRUCTIONS-continued.
21.—AV.C. accommodation insufficient. | Provide additional w.c. accommodation. |
22.—No drain in yard or stable. | Construct a proper drain in yard (or stable), with a properly trapped inlet gully, arranged so as to carry off the (surface water. |
23.—No trap to yard drain. | Provide and fix, in connection with the drain inlet, a glazed stoneware syphon gully. |
24.—Defective drain (brick drain), leaky drain. | Remove defective (brick) drain and replace with good glazed stoneware pipes, laid with a sufficient fall to rapidly take away all sewage matter, proper junctions to be used where necessary and all joints to be made water-tight, all inlets to be properly trapped with glazed stoneware syphon gullies. |
25.—Cesspool. | Thoroughly break up and destroy cesspool, carefully remove all bricks and foul earth, and fill up with dry rubbish. |
26.—Walls of yard dirty. | Cleanse and lime-white walls of yard. |
27.—No ashbin. | Construct a covered ashbin. |
28.—Ashbin dilapidated, no cover. | Repair ashbin and provide cover for same. |
29.—Cellar illegally occupied. | Discontinue occupation of cellar for sleeping purposes. |
30.—House or room overcrowded. | Abate the overcrowding. |