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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 1922

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

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Table: TableNo.12.

TableNo.12.

Registered Tenement Houses—Breaches of By-Laws.Intimations.Statutory Notices.
1. Overcrowding115
2. Inadequate water supply1—
3. Contaminated water supply——
4. Foul closet, basin or trap84
5. Want of means of ventilation11
6. Want of annual cleansing——
7. Want of cleansing of the part or parts of premises used in common24399
8. Want of cleansing of the part or parts of premises in sole use358132
9. Want of cleansing of the room or part of the dwelling104
10. Animals improperly kept-—
11. Other breaches114
Total643249

Table: TableNo.13.

TableNo.13.

Factories, Workshops and Work Places—Breaches of Statutes.Intimations.Statutory Notices.
1. Want of cleanliness10626
2. Want of ventilation——
3. Want of air space, overcrowding——
4. Sanitary accommodation, absent or insufficient83
5. Sanitary accommodation, unsuitable or defective7627
6. Sanitary accommodation, not separate for sexes184
7. Want of drainage of floors——
8. Other nuisances10318
9. Illegal occupation of underground bakehouse——
10. Breach of special sanitary requirements for bakehouses1123
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 contraventions6315
Total48696