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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bricks; troughs put on castors, and woodwork repainted;
new stone steps provided; new cement floor to bakehouse;
new hot water apparatus; new coal cellar formed.
27, Morning Lane.—Ceiling of bakehouse, and all woodwork re
painted; walls rendered to a smooth surface; light and
ventilation improved; troughs put on castors; ceiling
repaired in flour store and walls whitened; close fitting
cover to boiler; new door to coal cellar.
77, Frampton Park Road.—Ceiling of bakehouse repaired and
whitened; bakehouse enlarged by removal of partition
walls rendered to a smooth surface; floor repaired where
necessary; oven front reinstated with glazed bricks; light
and ventilation improved; all woodwork repainted;
troughs put on castors; close fitting cover to boiler; new
cement floor to flour store.
101, Mare Street.—Ceiling of bakehouses repaired and whitened;
bakehouse walls rendered and whitened; floor repaired
where necessary; light and ventilation improved; flour
store cleansed and whitened; all woodwork re-painted;
troughs put on castors.
200, Lower Clapton Road.—Flour Store—Portion of bakehouse
divided off by a brick partition to form flour store;
lighting improved; window in stall-board removed and
replaced by a new iron framed light 4 ft. 2 in. x 1 ft. 10 in.;
wall plastered and rendered smooth with granolithic
plaster, and lime whitened; ceiling cleansed and lime
whitened; passage leading to yard and w.c. shut off by
partition with glass panelled door with vent grating over
outer door; front of oven rendered with white glazed
bricks; troughs put on castors.
18, Upper Clapton Eoad.—Lighting improved by fixing three
new casement lights in stall-board, and the three casements
made to open; new light fixed in wall of flour