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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 1904
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Romford RDC]
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Nov. 17th.—Two slaughter houses without license. Notice.
Closed.
Nov. 18th.—Accumulation of refuse. Removed.
Nov. 28th.—Defective drainage. Notice Remedied.
Dec. 3rd.—Foul drains and cesspit. Notice. Cleansed.
Dec. 3rd.—Ditto Ditto
Dec. 5th.—Two houses unfit for habitation. Condemned and
closed.
Dec. 9th.—Swine causing nuisance. Removed.
Havering :—
May 25th.—Foul cesspits and dilapidated closets. Notice to
cleanse cesspits, and to erect new closets and provide earth-pans.
Complied with.
July 18th.—Havering School.—Cesspools and drains foul. Notice
to cleanse and to ventilate drain. Complied with.
July 18th.—Ditto—Foul ditcb, from drain discharging into it.
Notice to disconnect. Complied with.
Aug. 17th.—Foul cesspits and ditch. Notice. Cleansed.
Hornchurch :—
Jan. 4th.—Hornchurch.—Sink directly connected with drain.
Diphtheria. Notice to disconnect. Complied with.
Jan. 7th.—Ditto—Twelve cottages with foul closets. Notice.
Cleansed.
Jan. 7th.—Ditto—Blocked drain. Notice. Cleansed.
Jan. 8th. — Harold Wood.—Premises insanitary, drains not connected
with sewer. Notice. Remedied.