London's Pulse: Medical Officer of Health reports 1848-1972
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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
Bethnal Green 1924
Special report on an outbreak of Typhoid Fever in the Borough of Bethnal Green in 1924
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building and he shall construct such soil pipe of
cast iron, he shall cause such pipe to be coated
on both the inside and the outside with Dr. Angus
Smith's solution or with some other equally suitable
material as a preservation against corrosion."
and the following proviso to by-law 17 in the Drainage
By-laws, that is to say :—
" Provided that in any case where it shall be
necessary to construct such ventilating pipe within
a building he shall construct such ventilating pipe
in drawn lead,"
was repealed and the following proviso substituted
therefor:—
" Provided that in any case where it shall be
necessary to construct such ventilating pipe within
a building and he shall construct such ventilating
pipe of cast iron, he shall cause such pipe to be
coated on the inside with Dr. Angus Smith's
solution or with some other equally suitable
material as a preservation against corrosion."
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