Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Paddington, Metropolitan Borough of]
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HOUSING. 63
TABLE 40.
Sanitary Defects Remedied in Registered Houses.
1908. | 1907. | |
---|---|---|
Drain defective | 34 | 44 |
„ choked | 9 | 3 |
„ untrapped | 7 | 2 |
„ unventilated or improperly ventilated | 24 | 24 |
Manhole cover defective | 1 | 6 |
Surface inlet improperly trapped | 9 | 7 |
Gully choked | 9 | 6 |
Ventilating pipe improperly constructed | 1 | 3 |
Soilpipe defective | 2 | - |
„ improperly constructed | 2 | - |
„ unventilated or improperly ventilated | 2 | 1 |
Water-closet choked | 39 | 20 |
„ defective | 49 | 45 |
„ flushed from drinking water cistern | 2 | 3 |
„ insufficiently flushed | 42 | 23 |
„ flushing apparatus defective | 36 | 38 |
„ without water supply | 8 | 12 |
„ foul | 20 | 18 |
„ improperly constructed | 14 | 5 |
„ accommodation insufficient | 14 | 34 |
„ without door | 9 | 2 |
„ without external light or ventilation | 1 | 1 |
Rain-water pipe not disconnected from drain or soilpipe | 18 | 4 |
„ defective | 24 | 22 |
„ choked | 3 | 7 |
Waste pipe not disconnected | 4 | - |
„ defective | 7 | 10 |
„ choked | - | 1 |
„ not provided | 3 | 3 |
Other drainage defects | 3 | 10 |
Cistern defective | 2 | 4 |
„ dirty | 70 | 34 |
„ improperly placed | - | 1 |
„ without proper cover | 12 | 15 |
„ cover defective | 27 | 7 |
Dustbin defective | 105 | 54 |
„ not provided | 4 | 7 |
„ insufficient | - | 8 |
„ disused and not abolished | 5 | - |
Paving defective in area or yard | 85 | 89 |
„ „ washhouse | 40 | 48 |
Guttering defective | 21 | 12 |
Premises damp | 10 | 8 |
„ dirty | 9 | 4 |
Rooms verminous | 258 | 345 |
Roof defective | 142. | 136 |
Accumulation of refuse | 3 | 42 |
Animals improperly kept | 6 | 6 |
Other defects or nuisances | 13 | 30 |
Annual Cleansing.—There were 1,323 houses on the Register in March of last year, all of
which required to be inspected in connection with the "annual cleansing" which the byelaws
provide shall be carried out during the month of April of each year. Although the
work was divided among five Inspectors, it was not completed before October last. The
inspections made numbered 4,611, 2,154 rooms being reported to be in need of cleansing.
The corresponding figures for 1907 were 5,250 and 2,376. The notices served as a result of
these inspections (included in the figures given in the preceding paragraph) numbered 2,771
(2,818 in 1907), viz.: cleansing notices, 2,126; for verminous rooms, 120: and for defects of
all descriptions, 525. One hundred and forty-seven (147) cases were referred to the Solicitor,
but only 23 summonses were issued.