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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glass door and frame fitted to opening from bakehouse
leading to store-room; store-room floor repaired; half
glass door fitted to the store in rear; small area, white,
tiled.
68, Lansdowne Road.—Walls rendered in sand and cement and
whitewashed, and the portion round ovens rebuilt with
glazed bricks; floor lowered and concreted; lighting and
ventilation increased and improved; new hot water
apparatus fixed; ceiling brought to an even surface and
whitewashed, all woodwork painted with three coats of
oil colour; flour store reconstructed, lighted and
ventilated; castors fixed on troughs.
81, Wilton Road.—Walls round ovens rebuilt with glazed bricks;
the other walls painted down with oil color; floor
lowered and concreted; lighting and ventilation increased
and improved; new hot water apparatus fixed; castors
fixed on troughs; all woodwork painted with oil colour.
178, Dalston Lane.—Walls rendered and whitewashed; floor
lowered and concreted; lighting and ventilation increased
and improved; new hot water apparatus fixed; castors
fixed on troughs; ceiling whitewashed; all woodwork
painted.
25, West Side, London Fields.—Glazed bricks and tiles fixed
round oven; the other walls rendered and whitewashed;
floor repaired; lighting and ventilation increased and
improved; woodwork renewed and painted; new hot
water apparatus fixed; floor of flour store concreted;
castors fixed on troughs; ceiling brought to an even
surface and whitewashed.
69, High Street, Kingsland.—Walls round ovens rebuilt with
glazed bricks; floor of front bakehouse lowered and repaved
; new hot water tanks fixed in each bakehouse;