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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
Hampstead 1904
Report for the year 1904 of the Medical Officer of Health
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Table XIII. 852 Complaints were received during the year 1904, and related to the following matters:—
| Accumulations, offensive | 8 |
| of refuse | 9 |
| Animals, keeping of | 13 |
| dead | 5 |
| Dampness in premises | 33 |
| Dirty premises | 16 |
| Drains, bad condition of | 45 |
| defective | 19 |
| stopped | 35 |
| Dust, manner of removal | 6 |
| non-removal | 100 |
| Dust receptacles, foul or defective | 27 |
| absence of | 10 |
| improperly placed | 3 |
| Effluvium nuisances | 10 |
| Flooding of premises | 5 |
| Insanitary premises | 31 |
| Illness attributable to defective drains | 12 |
| Manure not removed | 15 |
| Overcrowded premises | 14 |
| Rats, nuisance from | 9 |
| Roadways, condition of | 13 |
| Road gullies stopped | 3 |
| Roofs defective | 4 |
| Rubbish, offensive | 3 |
| burning | 13 |
| Smells | 35 |
| on premises | 24 |
| from road gullies | 10 |
| sewer ventilators | 94 |
| stables | 11 |
| drains, &c. | 27 |
| water closets | 11 |
| manure | 13 |
| dust bins | 3 |
| Smoke nuisances | 16 |
| Urinals, condition of | 2 |
| Uninhabitable premises | 1 |
| Unsound food | 3 |
| Water closets, absence of | 1 |
| insanitary condition of | 17 |
| insufficient | 4 |
| stopped | 8 |
| without water | 5 |
| proper flush | 7 |
| position of | 2 |
| Water, absence of | 3 |
| cut off | 252 |
| leakage of | 8 |
| Water cisterns, dirty, &c. | 8 |
| position of | 2 |
| Miscellaneous | 52 |
| Total | 1080 |
During 1903, 984 complaints were received.