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 Beckenham]
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SANITARY INSPECTION OF THE DISTRICT, 1939
Nature of Nuisances or Defects Remedied.
No. of defects remedied. | ||
---|---|---|
Choked drains | 26 | |
Cesspools overflowing | — | |
Drains defective or altered | 38 | |
Defective gullies | 10 | |
Defective W.C. pans | 25 | |
Choked W.C. pans | 7 | |
Flushing apparatus to W.C. defective | 27 | |
Dirty W.C. pans | 9 | |
W.C. apartments, dirty or defective | 83 | |
Absence of ventilated lobby to W.C. apartments | 2 | |
Waste pipes, defective or untrapped | 62 | |
Defective channels to waste gullies | 3 | |
House sinks, defective | 25 | |
Soil pipes, defective | 4 | |
Ventilating shafts, choked or defective | 4 | |
Fresh air inlets, defective | 10 | |
Manhole covers, defective or unsealed | 9 | |
Water supply cisterns, uncovered, dirty or defective | 6 | |
Galvanised iron dustbins, defective or absent | 23 | |
Defective pointing | 41 | |
Dampness | 150 | |
Rain-water pipes, defective | 35 | |
Defective gutters | 36 | |
Defective roofs | 97 | |
Defective floors | 56 | |
Defective walls | 82 | |
Defective ceilings | 62 | |
Dirty walls | 81 | |
Dirty ceilings | 86 | |
Yard paving defective or absent | 46 | |
Defective stoves | 38 | |
Defective coppers | 25 | |
Defective airbricks | 13 | |
Defective windows and fittings | 71 | |
Defective doors | 22 | |
Accumulation of offensive material | 16 | |
Absence of manure pit, or pit uncovered or defective | — | |
Insufficient ventilation to room | 11 | |
Verminous rooms | 12 | |
Absence of, or defective food cupboards | 64 | |
Defective cement rendering | 14 | |
Defective stairs and handrails | 21 | |
Defective matching | 3 | |
Absence of water supply | 6 | |
Smoke | – | |
Rats, premises freed of | 41 | |
Carried forward | 1,502 |