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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
Holborn 1894
Thirty-ninth annual report of the proceedings of the Board for the year ending Lady-Day, 1895
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pigs, 22 legs of pork, 21 barrels of pig's kidneys and plucks, 6 cases of
Dutch rabbits, 12 boxes of tomatoes, and 1 box of herrings.
SMOKE NUISANCES AND ABATEMENTS.
Inasmuch as smoke obstructs the light and health-giving rays of the
sun, and increases the opacity and noxiousness of winter fogs, and thereby
constitutes a very important and influential sanitary nuisance, I am pleased
to record the diligent and systematic manner in which your Inspector
carries out his duties. His yearly report is as follows:—
There are 9 kinds of smoke consumers in use in the district, which are as follows:—
| Martin's Patent | 5 |
| D. Annan's „ | 4 |
| Nicholson's | 4 |
| Ventilated Doors | 5 |
| Juke's Patent | 2 |
| Galloway's ,, | 2 |
| Caddy's ,, Bars | 2 |
| Hyde's ,, | 1 |
| Watts' | 1 |
| Total of Smoke Consumers | 26 |
"The number of furnaces and boilers without smoke consumers is 28.
"During the year ending Lady Day, 1895, 4 preliminary notices were
served, all of which have been complied with.
"The owner of 24, Gray's Inn Road abated a smoke and sulphur
nuisance arising from an open copper forge in the back yard of these
premises by erecting a glass roof over the yard, and carrying an iron flue
from the forge canopy into the chimney, thus carrying everything above
the roof of the building.
"The owner of 21, Eagle Street, abated a smoke nuisance arising from
a blacksmith's forge by reconstruction of the chimney of same. This shop
is now used as a wheelwright's.
"During the rebuilding of the Homoeopathic Hospital a complaint was
received from an inhabitant of Queen Square of a smoke and unpleasant