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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
Hackney 1905
Report on the sanitary condition of the Hackney District for the year 1905
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Details of house to house inspections made in the London Fields District during the year 1905 by Inspector Walter C. Vobe:—
| No. of houses inspected | 219 | |||
| Re-inspections made | 2,190 | |||
| No. of Intimation notices served | 225 | |||
| „ Statutory „ | 22 | |||
| Final notices served | 13 | |||
| House or part in a dirty condition | 91 | 77 | 7 | 7 |
| House or part in a damp condition | 41 | 37 | 2 | 2 |
| House or part in a dilapidated condition | 17 | 15 | 2 | 0 |
| Inlet to surface drain improperly trapped | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 |
| W.C. so foul as to be a nuisance | 43 | 43 | 0 | 0 |
| W.C. with a deficient supply of water | 25 | 24 | 0 | 1 |
| W.C. improperly constructed | 5 | 5 | 0 | 0 |
| W.C. so defective as to be a nuisance | 12 | 12 | 0 | 0 |
| W.C. stopped | 5 | 5 | 0 | 0 |
| Insufficient external light and ventilation to w.c. | 15 | 10 | 5 | 0 |
| Soil pipe unventilated | 4 | 4 | 0 | 0 |
| Yard paving defective | 37 | 31 | 6 | 0 |
| Yard dirty | 4 | 4 | 0 | 0 |
| Gully improperly placed within the house | 10 | 10 | 0 | 0 |
| Sink waste connected directly with drain | 4 | 4 | 0 | 0 |
| Sink waste untrapped | 36 | 31 | 2 | 3 |
| Sink waste defeclive | 4 | 4 | 0 | 0 |