Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
Report on the sanitary condition of the parishes of Poplar and Bromley within the Poplar District with vital statistics
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a view of detecting diseased and unwholesome food, hut no seizures
were necessary nor made during the year.
I am, Sir,
Your obedient Servant,
CEPHAS FOAD,
Assoc. of the San. Inst.
Sanitary Inspector and Inspector under Sale,
of Food and Drugs Acts.
No. 1 District, Poplar Board of Works.
APPENDIX.
Inspections made | 1372 | |
On complaints of nuisances | 594 | |
On notifications of infectious diseases | 245 | |
House to house visitation | 533 | |
Internal surfaces of premises cleansed throughout | 77 | |
Do. do. partially | 265 | |
Yards, areas, forecourts, and wash-houses paved and drained | 363 | |
Drains reconstructed, cleansed, repaired, or amended | 732 | |
Inlets to drains trapped with suitable stoneware traps | 207 | |
Drains tested, defects revealed | 556 | 762 |
Do. negative results | 206 | |
Sink waste paper properly disconnected from drains | 40 | |
Rain-water pipes do. do. | 90 | |
W.C. soil pans furnished with suitable and sufficient water supplies | 219 | |
W.C. soil pans renewed, cleansed, or properly trapped | 242 | |
W.C.'s ventilated | 37 | |
Do. reconstructed | 5 | |
Cesspools abolished | 2 | |
Dung receptacles provided or repaired | 4 | |
Urinals (public-house) repaired and cleansed | 4 | |
Defective water fittings, burst pipes, &c., repaired | 38 |