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 London County Council]
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No. (b). Has three storeys and a basement and contains eight rooms. There are two tenants, one
of them subletting three rooms to the other.
There is one water-closet and one water-tap both in the yard.
The washhouse is the back basement room, and in it is a water-tap and sink.
No. (c). A three-storey house with basement. Let in single-room tenements. About twenty
persons. There is a washhouse and water-tap both in the yard. There is only one water-closet.
Essex-street, Shoreditch.— This is a long street with houses of a similar kind on either side.
They consist of three storeys with basements and having back addition buildings on basement
and ground floor levels.
No. (a). There are nine tenants, each occupying single rooms.
For their use are provided two water-closets in the yard.
A washhouse in the back addition room at basement level.
The water-tap is placed in the washhouse.
No. (b). There are three tenants at present, one occupying three rooms on ground floor, one
occupying two rooms on first floor, and one occupying two rooms on top floor.
For their use is provided one water-closet in the yard.
A washhouse in the basement back addition room.
A water-supply tap in the washhouse.
Gifford-street, Shoreditch.— In this street are some two-storey houses, and one row of threestorey
houses, thirteen in number, and all of same character.
No. (a). One tenant occupies the house, who sublets to four lodgers, one occupying two rooms and
two occupying one room each. There are nineteen persons in all. There is only one water-closet
situated in the yard.
In the washhouse is placed the water-supply tap.
Huntingdon-street, Shoreditch.— This is a long street containing houses three storeys higli
with basements.
No. (a). Contains nine rooms, and is occupied by four tenants, three in single rooms and one in
five rooms.
There is one water-closet in the yard. The washhouse is in the basement, and here is placed
the water-supply tap.
Weymouth-terrace, Shoreditch.— A long street, with some houses having three storeys and
basements.
No. (a). Contains seven rooms, and is occupied by four tenants, three in two rooms each, and one
in a single room.
There is one water-closet in yard.
The water-tap is placed in the yard and the washhouse in the back basement room.
No. (b). Similar house occupied by three tenants, two in two rooms each and one in three rooms,
for which 7s. 9d. a week is paid.
There are one water-closet, one water-tap and one washhouse (dilapidated), all placed in yard.
Brunswick-street, Shoreditch.— This street contains three-storey houses.
No. (a). Contains six rooms. It is occupied by one tenant, the two rooms on top floor to two
lodgers.
The water-closet, washhouse and water-tap are placed in the yard.