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
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
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| 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 ?(a) At the street level.(b) From shafts. | Do you consider it desirable that Sanitary Authorities should have power to erect ventilating shafts on private property where necessary? (b) Have they proved satis factory ? | (>(ff) Have you any experience of (b) Have they proved satis factory ?" Sewer-gas destructors " ? (&) Have they proved satisfactory ? |
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| Occasionally. | — (a) A little. | |||
| At times complaints have been numerous. | There are grounds for believing that sewer ventilators at the street level have a deleterious influence upon health. | Should sewer-gas destructors work satisfactory there would be no necessity for erecting shafts on private property. | (a) Yes, Webb's. (4) A few have been erected and so far as can be judged they have proved satisfactory. | |
| Yes, many. | No, except by consent of owner and occupier, and subject to their conditions. | |||
| Numerous. | Yes. | No. | ||
| Yes, frequent. | Yes. | |||
| Yes. | a o | Yes. | ||
| Frequently. | No. | No. | (a) Yes. (i) No. | |