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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 1903

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for St. Pancras, London, Borough of]

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Table: Drain Tests.—The following table represents the results of tests applied to drains during the year 1903.

Drain Tests.—The following table represents the results of tests applied to drains during the year 1903.

After Infectious Disease.Upon Complaint.Upon systematic InspectionOld Buildings.New Buildings at completion of work.Total.
At commencement of work.At completion of work.
By Grenad.1. Defects found158275...4329...505
2. No result417223...366...709
3. Total575498...4695...1214
By Exposure1. Defects found...3............3
2 No result.....................
3. Total...3............3
By Smoke.1. Defects localised...1...1......2
2. No result...3......418
3. Total...4...14110
By W ater.1. Not found water-tight............1794183
2. Found water-tight.........11110971208
3. Total.........112891011391
Sum Total158279...442084693Sum Total
417226...41180981925
575505...4813881022618

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Analusis of Drainage Register for 1903.
Total number of applications 975
Number of arrolications without plans 239
„ „ plans 736
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Plans—Old hnildine-s. under notice 489
voluntary 226
„ New buildings and additions 21
736
§8—REFUSE REMOVAL.
The collection of House Refuse.—The reconstruction of London houses in flats
is necessitating the more frequent removal of domestic refuse. Dust shoots are
objectionable. Every separate dwelling should have its small separate portable
receptacle. It is physically difficult for dustmen to carry down from each flat
or dwelling each separate receptacle to the dustvan. The simplest method is
to have a large portable common receptacle or receptacles for the
whole house or building on the ground floor level and to cause it to be emptied
daily by the dustmen, and to require the tenant of each flat or dwelling to
cause his small portable receptacle to be emptied daily into the larger portable
receptacle or receptacles.