Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
Annual report of the Medical Officer of Health for the year 1899
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Brought forward 10,801
Flushing Apparatus— | |
Repaired | 725 |
New provided | 681 |
Water Supply provided | 662 |
Yard Paving — | |
Repaired | 2,197 |
New provided | 404 |
Defects remedied in— | |
Roofs | 1,631 |
Floors | 802 |
Staircases | 57 |
Windows | 38 |
Doors | 41 |
Fireplaces | 32 |
Walls and ceilings | 4,949 |
Cesspools— | |
Cleansed | 29 |
Abolished | 11 |
Ditches, Urinals, &c.— | |
Cleansed | 6 |
Filled up | 2 |
Animals improperly kept | 47 |
Offensive Accumulations | 220 |
Overcrowding | 58 |
Gipsies removed | 41 |
Dung Pits— | |
New provided | 46 |
Carried forward | 23,480 |