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Holborn 1895

Report of the Medical Officer of Health for the half-year ending December, 1895

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the following parts of the district, and in most of them the sanitary defects
found have already been attended to : —
White Horse Alley.
Pump Court.
Mitre Court.
Glasshouse Yard.
Dove Court.
Union Terrace.
Leather Lane Buildings.
Evelyn Buildings.
Eyre Street Hill and courts and passages adjacent (Italian colony).
Eagle Street, nine houses 43—51, and other separate houses.
Richbell Place.
Elm Court, 1, 2, 3, 4, and 1a.
Lamb's Conduit Passage.
Also a great many houses where there was infectious disease, or about
which complaints were received, have also been inspected, and sanitary defects
remedied and nuisances abated under the supervision of the inspectors.
SANITARY WORK.
The following is an abstract of nuisances abated and sanitary work
accomplished during the half-year ending December 31st, 1895 :—
62 Written complaints received attention.
1642 Premises inspected and re-inspected.
122 Preliminary notices have been served for the abatement of nuisances.
32 Statutory notices ditto.
184 Houses have been cleansed, repaired, lime-whited, &c.
11 Houses have had their overcrowding abated.
22 Underground rooms illegally and separately occupied have been closed.
141 Premises disinfected and cleansed after infectious disease.
54 New drains have been laid.
38 Drains repaired, ventilated, etc.
3 Cesspools filled up.
149 Water-closets reconstructed.
56 New water-closets constructed.
75 Water-closets cleansed and repaired.
26 Water-closets supplied with water.
11 Houses supplied with water for domestic purposes, after water being
cut off.