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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

Strand (Westminster) 1896

Annual report on the statistics and sanitary condition relating to Strand District, London for the year 1896

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Table: Name of Town or Sanitary District.Have you hail complaints with reference to sewer ventilators?Have you been able to trace any deleterious influences upon health from emanations from sewer ventilators?(à) At the street level.(á) From shafts.Do you consider it desirablethat Sanitary Authorities should have power to erect ventilating shafts on private property where necessary?(a) Have you any experience of" Sewer-gas destructors " ? (ft) Have they proved satisfactory ?

Name of Town or Sanitary District.

Have you hail complaints with reference to sewer ventilators?

Have you been able to trace any deleterious influences upon health from emanations from sewer ventilators?

(à) At the street level.

(á) From shafts.

Do you consider it desirable

that Sanitary Authorities should have power to erect ventilating shafts on private property where necessary?

(a) Have you any experience of

" Sewer-gas destructors " ? (ft) Have they proved satisfactory ?

Battersea ...Yes, many.(a) Many cases of Enteric Fever and Diphtheria, have been directly traced as the result of childreu playing over ventilators at the street level. (b) No complaints; the street level ventilators are rendered harmless where shafts are taken up houses, acting then as fresh air inlets.Yes, decidedly. About 170 ventilating shafts have been taken up the face, or preferably the flanks of houses, with the concurrence of the owners.No.
Bow ...Yes.(a) No. (6) No. Yes. | No.
Camberwell ...— —The Vestry approves of the suggestion.—
ChelseaVery numerous.The Medical Officer of Health is of opinion that emanations from roadway gratings are very frequently a source of ill-health. But it is impossible to obtain positive proof by exclusion of all other sources.Yes.(«i) Yes. (b) Doubtful.
Clapham ......Frequent complaints from surface gratings in some few places.o 6In some cases, but generally the object can be met by erecting standards in the streets.(a) Yes. (b) No better than a simple shaft.
Deptford ......Yes.(a) No. lb) —Yes.No.
Fulham ......Yes, numerous.There is evidence here tending to show that the emanations from surface ventilators are injurious to health.Yes.(a) Yes, Reeling's. (b) It appeared to answer while in use. but Gas Company discontinued the supply of gas.

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