London's Pulse: Medical Officer of Health reports 1848-1972
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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
Acton 1894
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Acton]
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Nuisances from road gulleys, manholes and air inlets,
visited and reported on 26
Nuisances from manure, animal and fish offal, house refuse,
and other deposits suppressed 125
Non-supply of water to dwellings 9
Nuisance from smoke 5
Cellar flooding 16
Over-crowding . 3
Insanitary dwellings. 4
Cesspools abolished. 2
Inspection of houses proposed to be used as baby farms 2
Inspection of common lodging house (the only one in Acton) 3
Nuisance from animals and poultry 7
Nuisance from Gypsies (their removal) 10
DETAILS OF SOME OF THE SANITARY
IMPROVEMENTS MADE TO DWELLINGS.
Soil pipes ventilated 57
Soil pipes taken outside house walls 8
Rain water pipes disconnected from soil pipes and made to
discharge over gully trap 11
Roof guttering repaired and made good . 6
Defective roofs made water tight 12
Delapidated walls and ceilings repaired 10
Back yards and stable yards paved 20
Recepticles for stable manure provided . 2