Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
[Thirty-ninth annual report of the proceedings of the Vestry of the Parish of St. Mary, Newington, London...]
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TABLE 13.
Summary of Sanitary Work carried out between Lady-Day 1894 and Lady-Day, 1895.
1. | Total number of entries in Sanitary Work Registers | 8048 |
2. | Notices given for Houses to be drained into sewer | 103 |
3. | Blocked or defective drains remedied or repaired | 244 |
4. | Drains reconstructed, or Interceptors, &c., provided | 1092 |
5. | Ventilation under floors ; to rooms, etc., provided | 413 |
6. | Dry areas provided or extended | 63 |
7. | Closets repaired, cleansed or limewashed, or water apparatus, &c., provided | 4106 |
8. | Yards paved; paving repaired; gullies, surface drains, &c., provided | 4994 |
9. | Sinks and rainpipes disconnected from drains | 2109 |
10. | Hoofs, gutters and rain-pipes repaired | 1313 |
11. | Dustbins provided or repaired | 1645 |
12. | Foul rooms, passages, staircases, &c., cleansed and whitewashed | 3749 |
13. | Water laid on to houses (after supply had been withdrawn) | 111 |
14. | Nuisances from manure, urinals, animals, smoke, &c., abated | 166 |
15. | Closets rebuilt or additional ones provided | 61 |
16. | Infected rooms whitewashed and disinfected | 757 |
17. | Beds, palliasses, bolsters, pillows, &c., disinfected at Depot | 3151 |
18. | Beds, palliasses, bolsters, pillows, &c., destroyed at Depot | 74 |
19. | Cases of overcrowding abated | 78 |
20. | Dust complaints entered in Vestry Clerk's book | 2887 |
21. | Slaughter and cow-houses inspected | 16 |
22. | Bakehouses inspected | 79 |
23. | Attendances at Police Courts | 45 |
24. | Number of bodies received into Mortuary | 155 |
25. | Sundry nuisances remedied not previously referred to | 128 |