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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. DICK, Oil Mills, Marine Street. —Drains defective
CARBON PAPER MANUFACTURERS, 178, Fort
Road.—Defective drains, yard badly paved, drinking water
connected with water-closet.
Messrs. D. & B. GLADDING, Rug Manufacturers, 7,
Grange Road. —Urinal foul and defective.
Messrs. S. H. & W. HART, Leather Dressers, 34, Tanner
Street. —Sanitary condition good.
Messrs. TEBBIT BROS., Leather Dressers, 48, Tanner
Street. —Sanitary condition good.
Messrs. T. T. WOOD, Leather Dressers, 48, Tanner
Street. — Workshops dirty, walls of scouring-house damp,
water-closet and urinals foul, and no water for flushing.
Messrs. DUNNE BROS., Leather Dressers, 54, Tanner
Street. —Defective paving in dye-house.
Mr. SMITH, Leather Dresser, 60, Tanner Street. —Work-
shops dirty, walls of workshop opposite scouring benches
damp.
Messrs. SIMMONS, Perambulator Makers, 3, 5, 7, Tanner
Street. —Sanitary Condition good.
Messrs. BLOORE & HEAL, Curriers, Kintrose Street.
—Defective paving in workshop, workshops dirty.
STABLES.
Messrs. RATTENBURY, Yalding Road.—No receptacle
for dung, defective drains, no water-closet accommodation for
men.
Messrs. NOAKES, Lucey Road.—No receptacle for dung,
no water to water-closets, yard badly paved.
Messrs. REED & SON, Mill Street. —No receptacle for
dung, drains untrapped, yard badly paved.