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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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on the sanitary condition of

Table: Name of Town or Sanitary District.Have you had 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 necessarya)Have you any experience of" Sewer-gas destructors " ? (&) Have they proved satisfactory?

Name of Town or Sanitary District.

Have you had 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 " ? (&) Have they proved satisfactory?

Newington......Yes, chiefly in small streets.[a) In certain small streets the Medical Officer of Health has reported on the danger to health, and shafts have been erected which have removed the nuisance.(b) No.Ownirs have never objected to allow Authority to put shafts near flank walls.The Surveyor of parish has used chambers in which the sewer-air is drawn over or through carbolic acid, and thinks highly of it.
Paddington...Yes, many.(a) and (b) No. But have reason to suspect that such emanations do give rise to sickness, and ill-health.Yes.(a) No.
Poplar ......Constantly.(a) Not directly.(b) No.Yes, most desirable. t(a) No.
RotherhitheVery rarely.(a) No. (b) No.Yes, if the consent of the owner of the property on which they are to be erected is obtained.(a) No.
St.George-in-the-EastNot during the last two or three years, since boiling water was prevented entering sewer.Unable to trace any deleterious influence directly to this cause without doubt.Doubtful.(a) No.
St. George, Hanover Square ......Occasionally.(à) Professor Corfield thinks, in a few instances. (á) No, except from the ventilators of soil pipes when ending too near to windows or chimneys.Certainly not without the consent of the owners.(a) No.