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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
Hornsey 1898
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Hornsey, Borough of]
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(C III.) COUNTY OF MIDDLESEX.— SANITAEY WORK, 1898.
| Sanitary Districts. | Water Supply and Water Service. | Privy A Ash Pits, Ash & Earth Closets. | Drainage and Sewerage. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Wells. | Houses, Water Laid on to. | Percentage of Houses Supplied froin Mains. | Cisterns. | Flush Cisterns Provided to W.C.'s. | Draw-Taps Removed from Cisterns to Mains. | Percentage of Houses supplied on Constant System. | Water Closets. | Percentage of Houses Provided with Water Closets. | Drains. | Cesspools. | Percentage of Houses Draining into Sewers. | Sewers. | ||||||||||||||||||||
| New Sunk. | Cleansed, Repaired, Ac. | Closed as Polluted. | New, Provided. | Cleansed, Repaired, Covered, Ac. | Overflow Pipes Discon- nected from Drains. | Above Ground Receptacles Substituted for Pits. | Movable Receptacles Substituted for fixed. | Water Closets substituted for Dry Receptacles. | New Constructed. | New Apparatus Provided. | Repaired, Cleansed, Ac. | Supplied with Water, or supply rendered efficient. | Ventilated. | Examined, Tested, Exposed* Ao. | Unstopped, Repaired, Trapped, Ac. | Waste Pipes, Rain Water Pipes, «o., Disconnected. | Soil Pipes and Draias Ventilated. | Disconnecting-Traps or Chambers Inserted. | Reconstructed. | New Laid. | Rendered Impervious, Emptied, Cleansed, Ac. | Abolished, and Drain Connected to Sewer. | Yards of New Sewers Laid. | Yards of Sewers Reconstructed. | ||||||||
| HORNSEY URBAN DISTRICT. | - | — | 1 | Ail excepting few isolated Cottages. | 100 | 1 | 56 | — | 34 | — | - | — | — | - | 36 | 89 | 137 | 30 | 14 | 100 | 164 | 179 | 105 | 83 | 36 | 127 | — | 6 | 1 | 100 | Surface water Sewers 5374 yards. | 620 |
| 9437 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Foul water Sewers 4063 yards. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||