London's Pulse: Medical Officer of Health reports 1848-1972

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Leyton 1903

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Leyton]

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Ventilation provided under flooring 13
Floors of sculleries paved and repaired 56
House roofs and guttering repaired and renewed 395
Houses in a general insanitary, dilapidated, or filthy condition,
repaired and cleansed 815
Walls of back addition properly rendered 59
Plots of land in an insanitary condition 22
Nuisances abated arising from stagnant water in basements
of houses 167
Cellar floors drained and concreted 22
Air inlets provided to drains and repaired 30
Stables paved and drained 4
Mews in filthy condition paved, drained and cleansed 13
Manure receptacles provided 8
Houses entirely redrained with intercepting syphons and
. manholes provided between the house drains and
sewer, and with efficient air inlets and outlets 95
Houses without water supplied by the East London service
and water supplies to houses restored and improved,
water fittings repaired 156
Domestic water cisterns repaired and cleansed 22
Covers to domestic water cisterns provided 695
Domestic water cisterns removed from improper positions 132
Nuisances by overcrowding 38
Nuisances caused by fish, offal, manure and other refuse
deposits 66
Animals kept in an unsanitary state 41
Houses disinfected, walls stripped, limewashed, &c. 535
Books disinfected 68
Cesspool closed and emptied 1
Smoke nuisances abated 13
Pig nuisances abated 2
Offensive trades 2