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, 1899
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supply for domestic use, 142 ; to amend, repair, and make good,
defective water fittings, 251 ; to provide proper and sufficient
covers to cisterns, 132; to amend and repair defective covers to
cisterns, 16; to cleanse foul and dirty cisterns, 70; to amend,
repair, and make good cisterns, 65 ; to open up, examine, amend,
repair, and reconstruct drains, 381 ; To clear, cleanse, and purify
drains, 404 ; to properly and sufficiently trap surface inlets to
drains with gully traps, 998 ; to properly and sufficiently ventilate
drains, 196 ; to construct proper and sufficient drains to carry off
surface water from yards, 334 ; to construct proper and sufficient
drains to carry off surface water from areas, 77 ; to construct
proper and sufficient drains to stables, 19 ; to provide and fix
soil pipes to water closets, 73 ; to remove soil pipes to positions
outside water closets, 69 ; to amend and repair soil pipes, 10 ; to
properly and sufficiently ventilate soil pipes, 90 ; to properly and
sufficiently ventilate water closets, 59 ; to provide proper and
sufficient soil pans and traps to and for water closets, 807 ; to
amend and repair defective putty joints to water closets, 9 ; to
amend and repair defective flush pipes to water closets, 23 ; to
properly and sufficiently trap water closet pans, 188 ; to clear and
cleanse foul and dirty water closet pans, 78 ; to amend and
repair defective seats and risers of water closets, 37 ; to disconnect
sink waste pipes from drains, 224 ; to disconnect rain-water
stack pipes from drains, 268; to disconnect bath waste pipes from
drains, 21 ; to disconnect lavatory waste pipes from drains, 14 ;
to disconnect overflow pipes of cisterns from drains, 2 ; to provide
and fix rain-water stack pipes, 44 ; to amend and repair defective
rain-water stack pipes, 141 ; to amend and repair defective waste
pipes, 65 ; to provide and fix eaves guttering, 56 ; to amend and
repair defective eaves guttering, 178; to amend and repair