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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
Romford 1903
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Romford RDC]
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Feb. 23rd.—Douglas Road.—Blocked drain. Notice. Cleansed.
March 14th.—Hornchurch.—Three dwellings with only one closet.
Notice. Remedied.
April 27th.— Ditto—Foul drain. Notice to connect with sewer.
Complied with.
May ll/A.—Station Road, Hornchurch.—Old cesspool open.
Notice to fill in. Complied with.
May [4th.—Great Garden—Ditto—Insufficient closets. Notice
to provide others. Complied with.
May 14th.—Ditto—Overcrowded dwelling. Notice. Remedied.
May 27th.— Lower Richmond Street.- -Foul and defective closets.
Notice. Cleansed and repaired.
June 8th.—High, Street, Hornchurch.— Blocked drain. Notice.
Cleansed.
June 10th.—Ditto—Foul drain and ditch. Cleansed and connected
with sewer.
June 24th. — South Hornchurch. —Defective closet. Notice.
Repaired.
June 24th.—Ditto—Foul drain and cesspool. Notice. Cleansed.
July 8th.—High Street.—Blocked drain. Notice. Cleansed.
Aug. 5th.—Douglas Road.—Ditto Ditto
Aug. 27th.—Emerson Park.—Complaint of pumping cesspool
contents into garden. Notice to abate nuisance complied with.
Aug. 27th.—Craigdale Road.—Refuse shot near house. Notice.
Nuisance abated.
Sept. 4th.—High Street.—Foul drain. Notice. Cleansed.
Sept. 4th.—Defective sanitary appliance. Notice, Remedied,