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and sanitary conveniences provided are—scullery and copper, open balcony,
coal-bin and dust-bin, and w.c. Electric light is laid on and cupboards
are provided. The rooms of the dwellings are through ventilated, and there is
no possible air communication between one dwelling and another, or between a
w.c. and a dwelling. The large courtyard contains a covered playing place for
children, and the vista through the gateway towards the trees of Goldington
Crescent with the granite fountain in the centre is particularly pleasing.
Revenue Art, 1903.—The requirements under this Act were set out in the
Annual Report for 1904.
The following is an interesting extract from the Annual Report for 1904 of
the Health Officer of Shanghai (page 7) :—
In some respects the construction of dwellings cannot bo regulated by
building rules, and such is the case with regard to the arrangement of
kitchens, Bowel disorders are the only ones in Shanghai to be specially
feared by the foreign resident, and are probably in every case derived from
infected food. It becomes necessary, therefore, for the careful housewife to
jealously guard the preparation of food. Simple rules will be found in the
Public Health Notice which is obtainable on application at the Health Office,
1, Honan Road. As regards house construction three separate rooms should,
if possible, be provided for the preparation of food :—
The larder, kept strictly for storing uncooked food from the local
market. It should have a north window fitted with fine wire gauze and
a door opening into the open air and not into the hot kitchen.
The kitchen with kitchen sink, &c.
The serving-room, communicating with the dining-room, and containing
the Berkefeld filter, ice-chest, the table utensils and washing up sink.
Here should be stored all drinks, boiled milk, bread and butter, cooked
and prepared foods and such fresh fruits and vegetables as can be safely
eaten.
The main point is to keep everything that goes on the table quite
separate from the uncooked food that comes from the market. Cooking or
boiling destroy infection.
(g).—HOUSING OF THE WORKING CLASSES ACTS.
Part I,
Area No. 1. Somers Town.
1 (a).— Churchway Scheme.—In continuation of the previous Annual Reports
on this subject, the houses Nos. 146, 148, and 150, Euston Road having been
acquired, have been demolished, and now (1906) the new roadway of Churchway
has been continued into Euston Road, so that an ample thoroughfare by the
side of the New Hospital for Women leads past Wellesley, Somerset, and
Seymour Buildings into the heart of the area between Seymour Street and
Chalton Street, and opens out into Euston Road the culs-de-sac formed by
Drunnnond Crescent, Drummond Street (East End), Lancing Street, and
Grafton Place, which formerly could only be entered from Seymour Street,
and into which street they again led.