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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 1905

Fiftieth annual report on the health and sanitary condition of the Metropolitan Borough of Islington

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1905]
188
Registers—The registers showed that 2,629 workshops and workplaces
were on them at the end of the year as compared with 2,278 in 1904. There
was thus an increase of 351.
Of these numbers 996 were on Miss Brown's register and 1,297 on
Mr. West's. These workshops contained 3,567 workrooms.
Additions and Removals from the Register.—From Miss Brown's
register 173 premises were removed and and 129 added, while from Mr. West's
register 70 workshops have been added and 11 removed.
Sanitation.—Once more a general improvement in the workshops has
been noticed, which is only what might have been expected from the systematic
manner in which they have been dealt with.

Table: A table is here appended which shows the chief nuisances that have been remedied during the year, as well as in the several years since 1896.

A table is here appended which shows the chief nuisances that have been remedied during the year, as well as in the several years since 1896.

1896189718981899190019011902190319041905Total
Overcrowding261215142214413413137
Ventilation141325435811469
Dirty rooms311195109992172182314236304122,845
Drains554458375313216177905019152,267
W.C.'s4203253413554113751541611651512,858
Water supplies79413520191383541838400
Surface drains79109875178812534034614
Cleansing4123753934244373875584416094904,526

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Cleanliness.—The workshops and workrooms were generally found in a
good condition, and as in former years, where they were not quite up to the
mark, very little trouble was experienced in obtaining the consent of the
owners to put them into a proper state.
550 cases of want of cleanliness were discovered, of which there remained
53 to be put right at the end of the year. These have since been dealt with.
412 of these cases referred to individual rooms.