Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
Report on the sanitary condition of the Hackney District for the year 1903
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74, Fountayne Road.—Light and ventilation improved; bakehouse
partitioned off from flour store; walls and ceilings
rendered and whitened; floor concreted; troughs put on
castors.
142, Victoria Park Road.—Ceiling lathed and plastered; walls
rendered with sand and cement; light and ventilation
improved; oven front renewed with glazed bricks;
alteration to coal cellar; troughs put on castors; flour
store formed separate from bakehouse; store walls
rendered with sand, and cement, and ceiling painted.
106, Gore Road.—Ceiling lathed and plastered, walls rendered
with sand and cement; light and ventilation improved
under stall-board; alteration to coal cellar; new flour shed
built in yard, stairs repaired.
79, Lauriston Road.—Walls rendered with sand and cement;
floor lowered and concreted; oven front renewed with
glazed bricks; light and ventilation improved; troughs
put on castors; new flour store built.
13, Loddiges Road.—Ceiling lathed and plastered; walls
rendered with sand and cement; light and ventilation
improved under stall-board; floor lowered and concreted;
alteration to coal shed; troughs put on castors; flour
store repainted; ceiling repainted; windows fitted to
separate store from bakehouse.
34, Church Road, Homerton.—Twelve inches of soil excavated
over floor service to obtain the necessary height of storey ;
floor relaid with nine inches of concrete, and trowelled
off with granite chips; walls properly prepared and
plastered with Keen's cement trowelled to a
fair surface; ceiling painted three coats in oil; stallboard
of shop front altered and fitted with new fanlight
for lighting, and properly hung for ventilation purposes;