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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
Hornsey 1943
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Hornsey, Borough of]
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INSPECTIONS NECESSITATED BY WAR CONDITIONS.
| Salvage Sacks Sites | 930 |
| Survey of Unoccupied Houses | 1,741 |
| A.R.P. Posts | 4 |
| Air Raid Trench Shelters | 495 |
| Fuel and Lighting Order | 67 |
| Emergency Feeding Stores | 10 |
| A.R.P. Food Stores | 1 |
| 11,694 |
NOTICES.
The Notices served during the year are as follows: —
Under the— Verbal Preliminary Statutory
Public Health and Housing Acts 203 588 19
Housing Byelaws — 6 —
Shops Acts— — —
Factory Acts — - -
203 594 19
SUMMARY OF SANITARY IMPROVEMENTS CARRIED OUT.
DRAINAGE.
Number of houses and premises redrained 9
Repairs or amendments to existing drains 62
Drains or gullies unstopped or cleansed 51
Manholes provided 10
do. repaired 23
Intercepting traps fixed 2
New gulley traps fixed 31
New soil pipes and ventilating shafts fixed 31
Soil pipes and ventilating shafts repaired 38
Fresh-air inlets provided or repaired 3
WATER-CLOSETS AND SANITARY FITTINGS.
New water-closet buildings 4
New water-closet basins fixed 84
Water-closet unstopped, cleansed or repaired 51
New check cisterns fitted to water-closets; existing check
cisterns repaired 27
New sinks provided 18
New lavatory basins provided 22
New waste-pipes fixed 43
Waste-pipes trapped, repaired or unstopped 48
Waste-pipes diverted into proper drain 1
Baths provided or made usable 11
Urinals cleansed 1
MISCELLANEOUS.
Roofs repaired 242
Eaves guttering renewed, cleansed or repaired 48
Rain-water pipes provided, repaired 62
Damp walls remedied 101
Damp-proof courses inserted 14
Paving of yards repaired 78
Premises structurally repaired 392
Rooms cleansed, distempered or papered 94
Premises disinfested of vermin 130
Drinking-water cisterns repaired, cleansed and covered 44