Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
Annual report on the health of the Metropolitan Borough of Deptford
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District Inspection.
The work performed by the District Inspectors represents,
as usual, a very large number of inspections. The total inspections
and visits to premises numbered 27,881 as against 20,085
for the previous year, thus showing an increased activity on the
part of the sanitary staff. The figures stated above related to
5,449 houses in which 8,498 sanitary improvements of one kind
and another were effected. The premises visited included stable
yards, manure depots, vacant land, passages, urinals attached
to public houses and premises for which certificates under the
Customs and Inland Revenue Acts were required,as well as those
for which certificates as to the water supply were demanded.
Re-drainage.
The principal drainage work for the year 1911 has been
done at the following premises :—
EAST WARD.
No. 140 High Street; Nos. 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5 Alfred Place;
Nos. 81, 83, 129, 131, 133 and 187 Church Street; Nos. 26,
28, 30, 32, 34, 36, 38, 40, 42, 44, 46 and 48 Stanhope Street;
Fairground, High Street; Stable, Frankham Street; Nos. 46
and 48 Adolphus Street; Nos. 20, 28 and 30 Octavius Street;
Nos. 13, 15, 17, 19, 21, 37, 32, 34, 50, 52 Speedwell Street;
Nos. 22, 23 and 24 Comet Street; Nos. 1 and 2 Sun Cottages,
Speedwell Street, Nos.3, 5, 7, 32,34, 43, 59 and 61 Napier Street;
Nos. 72, 74 and 76 Kerry Road ; Nos. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 and 6 Dorset
Terrace, Payne Street; Nos. 103 and 105 Douglas Street.
NORTH WARD.
Nos. 13, 229, 231, 86, 101, 103, 105, 107 and 109 Evelyn
Street; Nos. 47, 49, 51, 53 and 91 Edward Street; Nos. 12-14,
175, 219, 221, 223, 225, 227, 193, and 185 Childers Street;
Nos. 96, 98, 100, 102, 104 and 106 Prince Street; Nos. 26,
28, 30, 32, 34, 36, 38 and 40 Czar Street; Nos. 11, 12, 13, 14
and 15 Grinstead Road ; Nos. 58, 60, 62 and 64 Boscawen
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