Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
Annual report for the year ending 25th March, 1898
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supply for domestic use, 144; to provide water supply to urinals,
11; to amend, repair, and make good, defective water fittings, 245;
to abolish cisterns in unsuitable positions, 25; to provide proper
and sufficient covers to cisterns, 192; to amend and repair
defective covers to cisterns, 70; to cleanse foul and dirty cisterns,
46; to amend, repair, and make good cisterns, 4; to open up,
examine, amend, repair, and reconstruct drains, 601; to clear,
cleanse, and purify drains, 327; to properly and sufficiently trap
surface inlets to drains with gully traps, 1,252; to properly and
sufficiently ventilate drains, 164; to construct proper and sufficient
drains to carry off surface water from yards, 364; to construct
proper and sufficient drains to carry off surface water from areas, 73;
to construct proper and sufficient drains to stables, 21; to provide a
water closet to a school, 1; to provide and fix soil pipes to water
closets, 161; to remove soil pipes to positions outside water
closets, 54; to amend and repair soil pipes, 28; to properly and
sufficiently ventilate soil pipes, 231; to properly and sufficiently
ventilate water closets, 13; to provide proper and sufficient soil
pans and traps to and for water closets, 990; to amend and repair
defective putty joints to water closets, 14; to amend and repair
defective flush pipes to water closets, 20; to properly and
sufficiently trap water closet pans, 53; to clear and cleanse foul
and dirty water closet pans, 160; to amend and repair defective
seats and risers of water closets, 92; to disconnect sink waste
pipes from drains, 282; to disconnect rain-water stack pipes from
drains, 321; to disconnect bath waste pipes from drains, 50; to
disconnect lavatory waste pipes from drains, 23; to disconnect an
overflow pipe of cistern from the drain, 1; to provide and fix rainwater
stack pipes, 25; to amend and repair defective rain-water
stack pipes, 176; to amend and repair defective waste