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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
Poplar 1912
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Poplar, Metropolitan Borough]
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Water Supply in Tenement Houses.
Notices were served with reference to an inadequate supply at
8 houses, and after some delay, an additional supply was provided at
each house, on the second floor.
| Houses registered | 13 | |
| Notices sent out re houses being placed on register | 13 | |
| Declarations with information, sent out | 25 | |
| „ with information, returned | 25 | |
| House-to-House inspections | 364 | |
| Rooms measured, and capacity entered in registers | 116 | |
| House-to-House visits, for registration purposes | 24 | |
| Cases of overcrowding, outstanding December 31st, 1911 | 5 | 104 |
| ,, discovered during the year | 99 | |
| „ abated „ | 94 | |
| „ outstanding at the end of the year | 10 | |
| Notices served for cleansing to be carried out | 191 | |
| ,, abatement of overcrowding | 60 | |
| ,, under Public Health (London) Act, 1891 | 10 | |
| Intimations under London County Council (General Powers) Act, 1904, Section 20 | 63 | |
| Final notices served for cleansing to be carried out | 1 | |
| Re-inspections | 2,147 | |
| Notices served under London County Council (General Powers) Act, 1907, re water supply on upper storeys | 8 | |
| Night Inspections | 78 | |
| Rooms stripped and cleansed | 406 | |
| Yards limewashed | 133 | |
| Wash-house doors refitted | 5 | |
| ,, roofs made watertight | 31 | |
| „ pavings repaired | 18 | |
| Water closet doors repaired | 15 | |
| Flushing cistern made workable | 12 | |
| Areas limewashed | 15 | |
| Wash-houses cleansed | 119 | |
| Water closets | 134 | |
| Soil pans „ | 45 | |
| Staircase walls stripped and cleansed | 54 | |
| Passages and landings stripped and cleansed | 31 | |
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