London's Pulse: Medical Officer of Health reports 1848-1972

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Deptford 1914

Annual report on the health of the Metropolitan Borough of Deptford

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Work of Sanitary Inspectors.
The work performed by the District Inspectors represents, as usual,
a very large number of inspections. The total inspections and visits to
premises numbered 26,684 as against 27,739 for the previous year. The
figures stated above related to 6,025 houses in which 7,039 sanitary
improvements of one kind and another were effected. The premises
visited included stable yards, manure depots, vacant land, passages,
public urinals, 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 re-drainage work for the year 1914 has been carried
out at the following premises. To redrain:—
By a combined operation in connection with the existing system,
No. 2 Eckington Gardens
Do. No. 234 Lewisham High Road
Do. Nos. 46 and 48 Hatcham Park Road
Do. Nos. 68, 70 and 72 Kender Street
To fix a new stoneware gully and pipes to building at the rear of
196 Lewisham High Road
To redrain, by a combined operation in connection with the existing
system, No. 4 Wickham Road
Do. No. 87 Wickham Road
Do. Nos. 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37,
38, 39 and 40 Colwick Street, and the Evelyn Saw Mills
in that street.
Do. Nos. 15, 17 and 21 Monson Road
Do. Nos. 1 and 3 Evelyn Street
Do. No. 4 Eckington Gardens
Do. Nos. 18 and 20 Amersham Vale
To redrain, in connection with the existing system, the "Crown and
Sceptre" Public House, 92 Friendly Street
To redrain, by a combined operation in connection with the existing
system, Nos. 353 and 355 New Cross Road
Do. No. 102 Manor Road
Do. No. 185 Church Street
Do. Nos. 70, 72 and 74 Tanner's Hill
Do. No. 79 Gosterwood Street
Do. Nos. 9 and 10 Brindley Street
Do. Nos. 156 and 158 New Cross Road
Do. No. 120 Lewisham High Road