Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
Annual report on the sanitary condition of the District for the year 1893
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Premises provided with new drains | 99 |
Drains stopped | 34 |
Drains defective | 117 |
Drains untrapped | 71 |
Drains with defective traps | 14 |
Waste pipes from sinks, &c., connected to drains | 104 |
Stack pipes connected to drains | 63 |
DUST BINS— | |
New sanitary bins provided | 37 |
Defective and repaired | 19 |
YARDS— | |
Defective paving | 44 |
Dirty, etc. | 6 |
HOUSES— | |
Requiring general repairs | 16 |
Requiring through and better ventilation | 22 |
Requiring ventilation under floors | 49 |
Rooms dirty | 110 |
Passages and staircases dirty | 45 |
Overcrowded rooms | 31 |
Defective roofs | 15 |
Defective eaves, gutters and down pipes | 18 |
Smoke nuisances | 3 |
ANIMALS— | |
Kept so as to be a nuisance | 5 |
Accumulation of offensive matter | 36 |
UNCLASSIFIED NUISANCES | 46 |