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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
Bermondsey 1894
Report on the sanitary condition of the Parish of Bermondsey for the year 1894
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Messrs. WHICHELOE & CO., Leather Merchants, Tidal
Place.-lnsufficient water-closet accommodation for workpeople,
workshops dirty and unpaved, drains untrapped.
Mr. PARKER, Wheelwright, Parker's Row.-Watercloset
foul and defective, soil pipe unventilated.
Messrs. MAULE & CO., Hair Merchants, The Grange.—
Defective drains, no catchpits for preventing foreign substances
entering the public sewer, yard badly paved.
Messrs. BARROW BROS., Leather Merchants, The
Grange and Grange Road.—No catchpits to prevent foreign
substances entering the sewer, drains defective.
Messrs. CHEVERTON, Tyer's Gateway. — Defective
catch-pits.
Mr. BURGESS, Leather Merchant, Brandon Street.—No
catch-pits to prevent foreign substances entering the
sewer.
Messrs. CASE & CO., Spice Mills, Dockhead.-Water-
Closets badly ventilated, no catch-pits for preventing foreign
substances entering the sewer.
ARMY & NAVY STORES COOKERY, 296, Lynton
Road.—Workrooms dirty.
Mr. COOPER, Leather Merchant, Crimscott Street. —
Foul and defective water-closets, Soil pipe of office watercloset
unventilated, no catch-pits, drinking water taken
from a polluted well, drains defective.
Mr. BROCKWELL, Wool Rug Manufacturer, Newham
Row.—Foul water-closet, drains untrapped, no catch-pits.
Messrs. SAVAGE & CO., Engineers, Suffolk Place.—
Defective drains.
Mr. GRAY, Glass Blower, Suffolk Place. — Defective
drains, foul water-closet, yard badly paved,
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