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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
St Pancras 1892
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for St. Pancras, Metropolitan Borough]
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| Pratt Wharf, King's Road | Percolation of water into basement of 11, Pratt Street, and surface drains improperly trapped. | Abatement order within 7 days and £2 8s. costs allowed. | Oct. 14 |
| 116, Stibbington Street | Defective drains | Abatement order within 7 days and £1 15s. costs allowed. | „ 21 |
| 23, Clarendon Place | „ „ | Defendant fined £2 and 9s. costs allowed. | „ „ |
| 26, Hastings St. (cottage in the rear of) | Premises unfit for human habitation. | Closing order. | „ 27 |
| 27, Hastings St. (cottage in the rear of) | „ „ „ | „ „ | „ „ „ |
| 2, Stephen Street | Defective drains | Abatement order within 7 days and closing order made 18th November and £2 1ls costs allowed | Nov. 11 |
| 1, St. Alban's Villas | Defective drains, and rainwater pipe connected to drains and joints of soil pipe defective. | Abatement order within 28 days and £1 5s. costs allowed. | Dec. 10 |
REFUSE REMOVAL AND DISPOSAL.
During tho year a radical change was effected in the system of removing dust
and other household refuse. The new organization is based upon a system for the
removal of dust once a week from every house in the District, this being effected
by causing the collecting carts to make a weekly call from house to house in every
street, square, or other p'.ace. For this purpose the whole District has been
divided into small areas, the Parliamentary Divisions (4), and Sub-Divisions (20)
having been adopted, and every Monday morning in each Sub-Division an
additional dust cart commences to collect, in accordance with a printed street-list
from house-to-house and street-to-street consecutively until the Sub-Division is
completed, so that whatever length of time a cart takes to complete a Sub-Division
it is followed by another at an interval of not longer than one week. When a cart
has completed a Sub-Division, it recommences the printed street-list on the
following Monday morning, and in the meantime if not engaged for other purposes,
may join with any other cart in a Sub-Division and work in co-operation and
currently with it until the end of the week to keep it employed. The effectual
working of the system is brought about by insisting upon a fresh cart commencing
the Sub-Division, in accordance with the street-list, every Monday morning, and
not permitting any cart to commence independently on any other day of the week,
nor at any point except the commencement of the street-list, otherwise the system
is inevitably thrown into confusion. If an additional cart is " put on," it must not
be allowed to work independently, but must work in co-operation and concurrently
with some other cart, so that the supplementary cart does not disturb the order of
collection, nor unduly curtail or prolong the intervals.