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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
Stoke Newington 1920
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Stoke Newington, The Metropolitan Borough]
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| 9, Wordsworth Rd. | Rat runs traced to defective drain. Drain repaired | No further complaints |
| 5, Carysfort Rd. | Rat runs traced to defect in front inspection chamber. Intercepting trap fitted, and drain repaired | Ditto. |
| 7, Carysfort Rd. | ||
| 70, Park Lane | Drains tested and found satisfactory. Rats are apparently strays from banks of New River. Advised tenant to remove old sheds from yard, and pave same | Ditto. |
| 5, Lilian Street | One or two strays, traps set and poison supplied | No further complaints |
| 79, High Street | Poison supplied and holes stopped. The source of infestation is at No. 81. These premises and also No. 83 are being dealt with. The drain between Nos. 83 and 85 has been examined, and the paving through Courtwav (Rochester Court) and in front of shops taken up and concrete put in | Further work being carried out |
| 81, High Street | ||
| 83, High Street | ||
| 69, Princess May Rd. | Drains tested and runs traced to broken drain pipe. Defect remedied. Two old rats and nest of young strays | No further complaints |
| 2, Hewling Street | r Several rats destroyed ; evidently strays | No further complaints |
| 97, Park Lane | Drains tested and found satisfactory. Poison supplied | Matter still in hand |
| 92, Amhurst Park | Advised occupant to remove disused fowl-house | No further complaints |
| 1, Kynaston Avenue | These premises were badly infested ; rats had obtained ingress through broken airgrids and had burrowed under party walls, finally nesting in disused brick drain running under No. 1. The brick drain was taken out and all broken airgrids renewed | No further complaints |
| 2, Kynaston Avenue | ||
| 3, Kynaston Avenue | ||
| 4, Kynaston Avenue | ||
| 5, Kynaston Avenue | ||
| 6, Kynaston Avenue 143, Bethune Rd. Mountgrove Mews | Complaint of rats seen in garden. Drains in order. Poison supplied Rats in stables. Poison supplied | No further complaints Ditto. |
| Lordship Grove and Depot | Two drains defective. Rat runs discovered. Drains of Nos. 4 and 5 were relaid and an interceptor fixed. Drainage of Depot apparently satisfactory, but drains of stables adjoining were untrapped. Bad | weather brought wall down on to catchpit. Wall rebuilt, and stone cover fixed on the catchpit. | No further complaints |