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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 1899
Report on the vital and sanitary statistics of the Parish of Lambeth during the year 1899
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| Date | Address. | Offence. | Penalty. | Costs. | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| £ | s. | d. | £ | s. | d. | |||
| Brought forward | 138 | 10 | 0 | 7 | 19 | 0 | ||
| Oct. 4th | 2, Neville Street | Owing to a room occupied at No. 2, Neville Street, being so overcrowded as to be a nuisance and dangerous to health (The nuisance continuing, the defendant was fined 20/0 or 7 days) | 1 | 0 | 0 | ... | ||
| Oct. 26th | Corporation Chambers, Guildford Yard | For failing to maintain in proper condition of repair the receptacle for dung, belonging to the premises 111, Upper Kennington Lane (Defendant fined £2 and 2/0 costs.) | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 |
| Oct. 26th | Corporation Chambers, Guildford Yard | Failing to provide the premises at 111, Upper Kennington Lane with adust-bin (Defendant fined £2 and 2/0 costs.) | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 |
| Oct. 27th | South London Electric Supply Corporation, Benge-worth Road | That at certain premises in Bengeworth Road a chimney, not being the chimney of a private dwelling-house, did send forth black smoke in such quantity as to be a nuisance (Defendant fined £2 and 2/0 costs.) | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| Nov. 8th | 15, Portland Cottages, Heman Street | Exposing for sale certain articles of food, to wit: 48 pieces of pork, 66 pieces of pork, and 16 pieces of beef, deposited for the purpose of sale, which was unsound, unwholesome, and unfit for the food of man (Defendant fined £20) and 2/0 costs.) | 20 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 |
| Nov. 15th | 33, Langton Road | For detective drain, stack pipe connected to drain, no draw-off tap from main and iron D trap at 33, Langton Road (Order made to do work in one month and owner to pay 4/0 costs.) | ... | 0 | 4 | 0 | ||
| Nov. 15th | 158, Denmark Hill | For defective roof and guttering, causing dampness at 27, Wiltshire Road (Order made to do work in 14 days and owner to pay 4/0 costs.) | ... | 0 | 4 | 0 | ||
| Nov. 25th | 26, Treherne Road | For so constructing a water-closet and drain as to be a nuisance and injurious to health at 59, Arthur Road (Defendant fined £2 and 2/0 costs.) | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 |
| Nov. 25th | 5, Elliott Road | For so constructing a water-closet and drain as to be a nuisance and injurious to health at 59, Arthur Road (Defendant cautioned and ordered to pay 2/0 costs.) | ... | 0 | 2 | 0 | ||
| Totals £ | 67 | 10 | 5 | 9 1 | 7 | 0 | ||