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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
City of London 1905
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for London, City of ]
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Thames Street deodorants are necessary at least twice in twenty-four hours in the
summer, it being difficult to keep the place free from nuisance caused by the
leakages from the fish carts, which rapidly decompose, and cause great annoyance
unless promptly dealt with,
LIMEWHITING OF COURTS.
The walls of the following courts 'were cleansed and limewhited, and
where the same are approached by a covered way, the ceiling treated in a similar
manner:—
| Montague Court | Rose Court | Beer Lane | |
| Rose Alley | New Square (entrance) | Minories | |
| Catherine Wheel Alley (entrancce) | French Ordinary Court | Fenchurch Street | |
| Hutchinson Avenue (Stoney Lane entrance) | Harrow Alley | Butcher Row | |
| Providence Place | Middlesex Street | Black Horse Yard | Aldgate |
| Garden Place | Sussex Place | Leadenhall Street | |
| White Rose Court | Widegate Street | ||
| St. James's Place | Garlick Hill | Friar's Alley | Upper Thames Street |
| Gun Yard | Bishopsgate | ||
| Cloister Court | St. Andrew's Hill | Britton's Court | Whitefriars |
| King's Head Court | Shoe Lane | Crown Court | |
| Gunpowder Alley | Dorset Court | Dorset Street | |
| Fleur-de-Lis Court | Carter Lane | Holborn Buildings | Holborn |
| Nevill's Court | Fetter Lane | Evangelist Court | Pilgrim Street |
| Greystoke Place . | Took's Court | Furnival Street | |
| Fleur-de-Lis Court | Red Lion Passage | Cloth Fair | |
| Boy Court | Ludgate Hill | East Passage | |
| Half-Moon Passage | Aldersgate | Back Passage | |
| Middlesex Passage | Bartholomew Close | Sun Court | |
| Bartholomew Place | Back Court | ||
| Montague Court | Little Britain | ||
| Little Montague Court | |||
SMOKE NUISANCES.
Smoke nuisances were reported at 21 premises during 1905. The number
of observations recorded in relation to them amounted to 554, as against 1,202
noted at 55 places in 1904.
In all cases the service of the usual notices resulted in the abatement of the
nuisance, and in no instance has the evidence been sufficient to justify the
institution of legal proceedings for abatement of smoke nuisance.
One case is pending, the nuisance at some times being great, but the
offenders are reconstructing their furnaces at a considerable cost, and the
nuisance will probably not recur.
The improvement of the last few years continues, but is only maintained by
constant watchfulness of your officers and by the service of intimation Notices
where an old nuisance recurs by carelessness or otherwise.
In cases where ventilation is properly provided for, the use of electrical
radiators for the warming of offices, and gas stoves for cooking will probably
in the near future be a partial solution of the London smoke problem.