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 Bermondsey.
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TABLE —continued.
Cases of Overcrowding abated ... ... ... 39
Houses closed as unfit for habitation ... ... 4
W.C's. repaired, ventilated, and whitewashed...
Closets panned and trapped or old pans 458
cleansed or new ones fixed ... ... ...
Closets supplied with water ... ... ...268
Defective drains reconstructed, ventilated and
trapped ... ... ... ... 188
Stopped drains cleared ... ... ... ... 188
Cesspool emptied, cleansed and filled up with
dry rubbish ... ... ... ... 1
Yards and forecourts paved ... ... ... 336
Drains and branches tested with water ... .. 890
Houses supplied with water ... ... ... 38
Defective roofs repaired ... ... ... ... 446
Defective rain-shoots and gutters repaired ... 436
Offensive accumulations removed ... ... 33
Houses drained into the public sewer ... ... 26
Defective water apparatus in w.c.'s repaired ... 238
Animals kept so as to be a nuisance, removed ... 7
Urinals cleansed, supplied with water and doors 14
Slaughter-houses inspected and licensed ... 5
Cow-houses inspected and licensed ... ... 6
Bakehouses inspected ... ... ... ... 80
Stables and other premises drained and paved ... 15
Waste water pipes disconnected from drains and
made to discharge in the open-air ... ... 45
For providing the requisite means of ventilation
by means of excavating underground floors
and inserting air bricks ... ... ... 92