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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 1921

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

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Table: Table No. 12.

Table No. 12.

Registered Tenement Houses—Breaches of By-Laws.Intimations.Statutory Notices.
1. Overcrowding94
2. Inadequate water supply11
3. Contaminated water supply——
4. Foul closet, basin or trap199
5. Want of means of ventilation43
6. Want of annual cleansing——
7. Want of cleansing of the part or parts of premises used in common332131
8. Want of cleansing of the part or parts of premises in sole use454166
9. Want of cleansing of the room or part of the dwelling31
10. Animals improperly kept11
11. Other breaches187
Total841323

Table: Table No . 13.

Table No . 13.

Factories, Workshops and Work Places—Breaches of Statutes.Intimations.Statutory Notices.
l.Want of cleanliness17032
2.Want of ventilation——
3.Want of air space, overcrowding1—
4.Sanitary accommodation, absent or insufficient71
5,Sanitary accommodation, unsuitable or defective8425
6.Sanitary accommodation, not separate for sexes359
7.Want of drainage of floors——
8.Other nuisances13022
9.Illegal occupation of underground bakehouse——
10.Breach of special sanitary requirements for bakehouses84—
11.Failure as regards list of outworkers——
12.Giving out work to be done in premises which are unwholesome——
13.Giving out work to be done in premises which are infected——
14.Allowing wearing apparel to be made in premises infected by scarlet fever or small-pox—–
15.Other contraventions10015
Total611104