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St Pancras 1907

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

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Intimations as to Breaches of By-laws and Breaches of Statutes served by the Sanitary Inspectors during the year1907.

Registered Tenement Houses.—Breaches of By-laws.Totals.
1 Overcrowding118
2 Inadequate water supply5
3 Contaminated water supply2
4 Foul closet, basin or trap44
5 Want of means of ventilation1
6 Want of annual cleansing30
7 Want of cleansing of the part or parts of premises used in common656
8 „ „ „ in sole use304
9 Want of cleansing of the room or part of dwelling330
10 Animals improperly kept3
11 Other breaches19
Total1512
Factories, Workshops, and Workplaces.—Breaches of Statutes.Totals.
1 Want of cleanliness82
2 Want of ventilation
3 Want of air space, overcrowding2
4 Sanitary accommodation, absent or insufficient7
5 „ „ unsuitable or defective9
6 „ „ not separate for sexes
7 Want of drainage of floors
8 Other nuisances7
9 Illegal occupation of underground bakehouse
10 Breach of special sanitary requirements for bakehouses28
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 contraventions4
Total139