Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
Report for the year 1903 of the Medical Officer of Health
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Name of Tovrn, or Sanitary District. | Have you had complaints with reference to sewer ventilators ? | Have you been able to trace any deleterious influences upon health from emanations from sewer ventilators? (a) At the street level. (b) From shafts. | Do you consider it desirable that Sanitary Authorities should have power to erect ventilating shafts on private property where necessary ? | (a) Have you any experience of "Sewer Gas Destructors ?" (b) Have they proved satisfactory ? | ||||||
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58 | 54 Yes. 2 Not since certain measures had been taken. 1 Sewers not ven-tilated. 1 No reply to this query. | 31 Yes. 11 No. 3 Doubtful. 2 No reply to the query. 11 Replies in-definite. | ||||||||
Yes. 12 | No. 31 | Yes. 3 | No. 30 | Yes. 21 | No. 27 | Yes. 11 | No. 16 | |||
In other returns these questions are not answered or the replies are not definite. | In several cases the replies received were indefinite, and in 5 instances these queries were not answered. |