London's Pulse: Medical Officer of Health reports 1848-1972
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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
City of Westminster 1908
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Westminster, City of]
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| Premises. | Offence. | Result. |
|---|---|---|
| 53, Soutli Molton Street (business premises and workshops) | Untrapped sink waste pipes connected to trap of w.c.; foul condition of waste pipes between w.c. pans and traps; w.c.'s supplied from (istern supply taps, and want of separation of cisterns from w.c.'s; defective soil pipe; defective brick drain to sewer | Order made for works to be done in a month, and for payment of 6s. costs. |
| 18, Pulford Street (tenement house) | The dirty condition of house generally, and of walls and ceilings of staircase throughout, washhouse, w.c., yard and area, and of rooms in basement and on top floor; the cistern for drinking water being liable to contamination, and the absence of water supply to upper part of house; the illegal occupation of the room in basement Overcrowding | Abatement order made and 6s. costs in respect of the nuisance and fine of £4 and £1 3s. costs in respect or the illegal occupation of the underground room. |
| '9A, Robert Street (tenements) | Allowed four weeks. | |
| 2a, Robert Street (tenements) | The generally dilapidated condition of walls, floors, window-frames and grates; the dirty and verminous condition of rooms; the defective rain-water pipe and paving of yard, the rain-water pipe not being carried to gully, allowing water to enter the house; the dirty state of drinking-water cistern | |
| 3A, Robert Street (tenements) | The overcrowded state of the house; the damp state of parlour over washhouse, owing to steam percolating through the floor; dangerous condition of staircase | Order to abate in each instance and 6s. costs. |
| 4A, Robert Street (tenements) | The dirty and verminous condition of house throughout; dangerous condition of staircase | |
| 5A, Robert Street (tenements) | The defective condition of paving of yard; the accumulation of refuse in yard | |
| 6A, Robert Street (tenements) | The dirty state of walls and ceilings of parlours and top floor back room, and of walls of yard and w.c.; the defective paving of washhouse ; defective flush-pipe to w.c., and defective window-frames |
Legal proceedings were taken in seven instances for offences under
the By-laws with regard to water-closets, as follows :—