Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for St. Pancras, London, Borough of]
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Intimations
Registered Tenement Houses.—Breaches of By-laws. | Totals. |
---|---|
1 Overcrowding | 200 |
2 Inadequate water supply | 3 |
3 Contaminated water supply | 1 |
4 Foul closet, basin or trap . | 49 |
5 Want of means of ventilation | 2 |
6 Want of annual cleansing | 433 |
7 Want of cleansing of the part or parts of premises used in common | 115 |
8 ,, ,, ,, in sole use | 126 |
9 Want of cleansing of the room or part of dwelling. | 96 |
10 Animals improperly kept | 4 |
11 Other breaches | 6 |
Total | 1035 |
1 Want of cleanliness | 139 |
2 Want of ventilation | 2 |
3 Want of air spacc, overcrowding | 2 |
4 Sanitary accommodation, absent or insufficient | 11 |
5 ,, „ unsuitable or defective | 10 |
6 ,, „ not separate for sexes | 3 |
7 Want of drainage of doors | — |
8 Other nuisances | 11 |
9 Illegal occupation of underground bakehouse | — |
10 Breach of special sanitary requirements for bakehouses | 21 |
11 Failure as regards list of outworkers | — |
12 Giving out work to be done in premises which are unwholesome | — |
13 „ ,, ,, infected | — |
14 Allowing wearing apparel to be made in premises infected by scarlet fever or small-pox | — |
15 Other contraventions | 1 |
Total | 200 |