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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Kingston-upon-Thames
There are no sewer ventilators except in roads not taken over by the Corporation. Complaints arise concerning these.
(a) Cases of diphtheria have occurred in roads with sewer ventilators, and no other source has been evident, but the evidence is not definite.
No. Sewers would be better if well flushed periodically and left un-ventilated.
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THE STRAND DISTRICT, LONDON.
| Leicester | Frequently. | (a) Many complaints of being made ill by street level grids are received, but | Certainly. | (a) Two (Deakin's) are in use at a public underground lavatory. |
| (b) None from the shafts. | ||||
| (b) Yes, as far as they go. | ||||
| Liverpool | Complaints have from time to time been made of foul smells from sewer ventilators, but— | the Medical Officer of Health has not been able to satisfy himself that any deleterious influence upon health has resulted therefrom. | The sewers have good fall, are well flushed, and the ventilators appear to be sufficient to effect their purpose without offence. | Sewer-gas destructors are not made use of in Liverpool. |
| Malvern | Yes. | (a) None. | Yes. | (a) Yes, Deakin's patent. |
| (b) The death of a scarlet fever patient is alleged to have been due to a shaft badly placed against a chimney. | (b) Yes. | |||
| Manchester | Yes. | (a) No. | Yes, but a limited and guarded power. | (a) No. |
| (b) No. | ||||
| Norwich | Repeatedly. | (a) Yes. | Yes. | (a) No. |
| (b) No. | ||||
| Portsmouth | Very frequently. | No proof, but grave suspicions of the street level ventilator. | No. | — |
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