London's Pulse: Medical Officer of Health reports 1848-1972
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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
Stoke Newington 1894
Report of the Medical Officer of Health for the last three-quarters of the year 1894
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The following is a list of nuisances abated and sanitary
defects remedied:—
114 back-yards, passages, and wash-houses re-paved or
repaired.
235 water-closets provided with flushing apparatus.
286 obsolete and defective w.c.'s removed and replaced
with new w.c.'s of modern construction.
114 soil-pipes brought outside and ventilated full bore.
334 bath, lavatory, and sink waste-pipes, trapped, and
made to discharge outside.
188 defective traps removed and replaced with sanitary
syphon-traps.
58 houses provided with proper gutterings and down
spouts, or same repaired.
158 houses provided with new sanitary dust-bins or existing
bins repaired.
314 blocked and defective drains cleansed, repaired, or relaid,
and in a great number of cases cascade action;
interceptors provided and fixed with all through
ventilation of drainage system.
39 foul water-closet basins cleansed.
43 foul dietary cisterns cleansed or new provided, and in
some cases removed to more sanitary position.
58 defective cisterns repaired and provided with proper
covering.
4 cases of overcrowding abated.
12 accumulations of manure removed.
23 roofs repaired which caused damp houses.
In addition to the above a large number of defects have been
remedied on advice.