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St Pancras 1925

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

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Table .No. 12.—Intimations as to Nuisances and Breaches of Statutes and By-laws served by the Sanitary Inspectors during1925,and the resultingStatutory Noticesin1925and the early part of1926.

Schedule of Nuisances.Intimations.Statutory Notices.
1 Part of the house in a dirty condition1204336
2 ” ” damp ”24576
3 Roof defective856275
4 Guttering defective19673
5 Water fittings defective19151
6 Water-closet apartment with absence of external ventilation459
7 ”” so foul as to be a nuisance or dangerous to health141
8 Water-closet basin foul8321
”” defective14513
10 ”” choked10416
11 Urinal in a foul condition3
12 Privy in a foul condition
13 Soil pipe defective4413
14 ” unventilated3415
15 ” improperly ventilated198
16 Absence of waste pipe to sink, lavatory or bath11
17 Waste pipe of sink, lavatory, or bath connected with drain132
18 ” ” ” defective8118
19 ””” foul316
20 Inlet of drain improperly trapped23 28210
21 Drain defective ...104
22 ” stopped13517
23 ” ventilating pipe defective12541
24 Rain-water pipe in direct communication with drain246
25 ”” defective14539
26 Unpaved condition of roadway3
27 Undrained ””1
28 Area or part unpaved11
29 ” undrained3
30 Yard or space unpaved1
31 ” undrained31
32 Defective condition of washhouse paving7029
33 Dust-bin defective40280
34 ”in an improper position51
35 Accumulation of stagnant water which is a nuisance dangerous to health151
36 Accumulation or deposit which is a nuisance dangerous to health10015
37 Animals kept in such a manner as to be a nuisance dangerous to health25
38 Part of the house so overcrowded as to be dangerous to health244
39 Space below floor in basement or ground floor insufficiently ventilated4110
40 Issuing of black smoke in such a quantity as to be a nuisance1
41 Discharging smoke in such a manner as to cause part of a building to be a nuisance dangerous to health81
42 Tent, van, shed, or similar structure used as a human habitation which is in such a state as to be injurious or dangerous to the health of the inmates3
43 Other nuisances746191
Total55011518