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 | 86 |
2 | Inadequate water supply | — |
3 | Contaminated water supply | 2 |
4 | Foul closet, basin or trap | 55 |
5 | Want of means of ventilation | 1 |
6 | Want of annual cleansing | 61 |
7 | Want of cleansing of the part or parts of premises used in common | 565 |
8 | ,, ,, ,, in sole use | 434 |
9 | Want of cleansing of the room or part of dwelling | 53 |
10 | Animals improperly kept | 10 |
11 | Other breaches | 33 |
Total | 1300 | |
Factories, Workshops, and Workplaces.—Breaches of Statutes. | Totals. | |
1 | Want of cleanliness | 91 |
2 | Want of ventilation | 2 |
3 | Want of air space, overcrowding | 1 |
4 | Sanitary accommodation, absent or insufficient | 8 |
5 | „ ,, unsuitable or defective | 9 |
6 | „ ,, not separate for sexes | 2 |
7 | Want of drainage of floors | — |
8 | Other nuisances | 10 |
9 | Illegal occupation of underground bakehouse | — |
10 | Breach of special sanitary requirements for bakehouses | 31 |
11 | Failure as regards list of out-workers | — |
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 | 6 |
Total | 160 |