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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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 ?(a) Have you any experience of "Sewer-gas destructors " ? (b) Have they proved satis factory ?
EalingVery few indeed.(a) Not with absolute certainty.In this district no trouble is experienced when necessary to erect any shafts up the sides of private houses.(a) Yes, Holman-Keeling sewer-gas destructor.
(b) No.
(b) Yes.
EastbourneYes.(a) Not certainly, but presumably.Yes.(a) No.
(b) No.
Esher and the DittonsYes, occasionally.No.No.No.
GlasgowAny complaints have been confined to sewers liable to access of drainage from alkali waste, &c., on the north side of the Clyde, and from untrapped street gulleys (an evil system in process of being reformed).No.No.No.
HullYes. The nuisance here is in great measure due to the admission of steam and hot waste water into the sewers.(a) Not directly.Yes. If a surface ventilator is complained of. permission is sought to erect a shaft on adjoining property.No.