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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
Lambeth 1898
Report on the vital and sanitary statistics of the Parish of Lambeth during the year 1898
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of the houses and treated separately as to ventilation,
means of access, &c , and into this back line of drainage
each house shall be drained separately (with drains
outside), and separately intercepted and ventilated.
9. That in the case of tenement blocks, each self-contained
block of flats or tenement dwellings shall be drained
separately.
Combined drainage in Lambeth in respect of new buildings
is now much simplified, and the rules laid down above
are working smoothly and well.