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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 1909
Fifty-fourth annual report on the health and sanitary condition of the Metropolitan Borough of Islington
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1909]
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346 persons live, of whom 252 are adults and 94 are children. It was found
also that for the accommodation of these people 41 W.C.s had been provided,
so that there was 1 W.C. for every 8½ persons.
It will thus be seen that, so far as sanitary accommodation is concerned,
these people are amply provided for. The furnished lodgings in this road are
much the same as in Campbell Road, being neither better nor worse, while the
class of people occupying them is similar. There are also some three or four
furnished houses in Albert Place, off Queensland Road, of a similar class, while
latterly houses of this description have been springing up in George's Road.
The work of the Inspectors is shown in the following statements:—
| Drains constructed | |
| „ repaired | 4 |
| „ traps supplied to | |
| W.C.'s., extra provided | 7 |
| „ amended | 25 |
| „ water supply provided | 214 |
| Dustbins provided | 99 |
| „ repaired | 1 |
| Surface drains of yard constructed or relaid | |
| Water supply.—Cisterns (new) provided | |
| „ Cisterns, repairs and cleansed | |
| Water supply provided | |
| Rooms cleansed and limewashed | |
| Walls and passages repaired, cleansed or limewashed | 59 |
| Floor space ventilated | 9 |
| Floors repaired | 56 |
| Overcrowding abated | 79 |
| Verminous rooms disinfected, &c. | |
| Roofs repaired | 75 |
| Other improvements or nuisances abated | 1,131 |