Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
Annual report for the year ending 25th March, 1894
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works were served as understated, viz.:—To provide proper and
sufficient water supply and water supplying apparatus to and for
water closets, 1,216; to renew the water supply to water closets,
59 ; to provide proper and sufficient water supply for domestic
use, 108; to amend, repair and make good defective water
fittings, 89; to provide new water receptacles, 44 ; to provide
proper and sufficient covers to cisterns, 777; to cleanse foul and
dirty cisterns, 187 ; to amend, repair and make good cisterns,
95; to open up, examine, amend, repair and reconstruct drains,
1,265; to clear, cleanse and purify drains, 203; to properly and
sufficiently trap surface inlets to drains with gully traps, 1,474;
to properly and sufficiently ventilate drains, 183; to construct
proper and sufficient drains to carry off surface water from yards,
355 ; to construct proper and sufficient drains to carry off surface
water from areas, 63 ; to construct proper and sufficient drains to
stables, 14; to remove soil pipes to approved positions outside
water closets, 67 ; to amend and repair soil pipes, 11; to properly
and sufficiently ventilate soil pipes, 135; to properly and sufficiently
ventilate water closets, 57; to provide proper and
sufficient soil pans and traps to and for water closets, 1,148 ;
to provide new soil pans to closets, 12; to amend and repair
defective putty joint to water-closet, 1 ; to amend and repair
defective flush pipes to water-closets, 10; to properly and
sufficiently trap water closet pans, 10; to clear and cleanse
foul and dirty water closet plans, 406 ; to amend and repair
defective seats and risers of water closets, 132; to provide doors
to water closets, 5; to disconnect sink waste pipes from drains,
622; to disconnect rain-water stack pipes from drains, 395 ; to
disconnect bath waste pipes from drains, 25 ; to disconnect lavatory