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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Blackpool
Yes.
(a) Not decidedly.
No. Experience of ventilating shafts against houses is against their use.
(a) Yes, Keeling and Worthington's patent.
THE STRAND DISTRICT, LONDON.
| (b) Yes. | ||||
| (b) No. | ||||
| Brighton | Not many. | (a) No. | Yes. | (a) No. |
| (b) No. | ||||
| Bristol | Sewers in this city are not ventilated. | (a) and (b) Not in use. | It ventilators are used shafts seem to be preferable to street grids, and such powers would be useful to secure the erection of suflicient shafts in suitable places, and at sufficiently frequent intervals. | (a) No. |
| Croydon | Of course numerous, but much diminished of late years owing to increased flushing and cleansing of sewers and house drains, and general improvement of sewer system and house drains. When sewers and the house drains are well constructed and are kept clean by constant flushing ventilators rarely give cause for complaint. | (a) Yes, occasionally, but not often, and evidence not very definite. | Yes. | (a) Yes. (b) No. |
| (b) No. | ||||
| Dundee | Yes, from untrapped street gullies and from perforated sewer manhole covers. | (a) Not directly. | Certainly. | (a) No. |
| (b) We have no special shafts. |
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