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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
St Olave 1894
Annual report on the sanitary condition of the District for the year 1894
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SANITARY.
TABLE V.
Summary of Nuisances and other matters reported on, and work done during the year ending 31st December, 1894.
| Number of Inspections or Re-Inspections made (but not including the numerous subsequent visits to works in progress, testing drains both new and old, &c.) | 722 |
| Number of Complaints entered in the complaint book | 12 |
| The above-mentioned nuisances were dealt with as follows: | |
| Number of Intimations served | 291 |
| „ Statutory Notices served ... | 107 |
| „ Notices directing attention to Bye-laws | 73 |
| „ Reports to Board or Committees | 31 |
| Summons taken out— | |
| For non-compliance with Notices under the Act | 2 |
| „ „ Bye-laws | 7 |
| The prosecutions were in each case upheld, and the fines and costs paid. | |
| Sanitary defects found and dealt with: | |
| WATER SUPPLY— | |
| Number of Houses found without water | 7 |
| Number of cases in which the drinking water and the supply to the w.c. were the same | 18 |
| Cisterns found dirty | 22 |
| Cisterns imperfectly covered | 20 |
| Overflow pipes connected to soil pipes or drains | 2 |
| Defective water fittings | 24 |