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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
Islington 1904
Forty-ninth annual report on the health and sanitary condition of the Borough of Islington
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| Trade fixed | 52 |
| W.C.'s—extra provided | 18 |
| „ amended | 57 |
| „ supplied with water | 135 |
| Dust bins provided | 98 |
| „ repaired or covered | 6 |
| Surface drains and yard pavements constructed or relaid | 91 |
| Water supply—cisterns provided | 3 |
| „ „ repaired and cleansed | 167 |
| „ provided | 32 |
| Houses—repaired | 32 |
| „ cleansed and limewashed | 330 |
| „ ventilated | 16 |
| Overcrowding abated | 69 |
"Overcrowding.—In only 69 instances was overcrowding detected in
these houses, and then it was generally found that the number of persons
occupying the rooms was very little in excess of the limits allowed by the
by-laws.
* Vide p. 190.