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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 1908
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Romford RDC]
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Havering and Noak Hill.
Jan. 20th.—Brock's Hill.—Two damp and dilapidated cottages,
unfit for habitation. Notice. Closed.
May 18th.—Noak Hill—Two dilapidated cottages. Notice.
Repaired.
May 18th.—Ditto—Two cottages with insanitary privies. Notice
to supply pail closets complied with.
July 7th.—Havering.—Foul ditch from overflowing cesspool.
Remedied by piping the ditch.
July 30th.—Ditto—Defective drainage to house. Drain re-constructed
and nuisance abated.
Sept. 4th.—Noak Hill.—Water supply to a house suspected to be
impure. Analysed and found to be good.
Hornchurch.
Jan. 1st.—Ardleigh Green.—Foul cesspool. Notice. Cleansed.
Jan. 2nd.—Wingletye Lane. Ditto Ditto
Jan. 10th.—Hornchurch.—Filthy premises. Notice. Cleansed.
Jan. 16th.—Harold Wood.—Accumulation of refuse. Notice.
Remedied.
Jan. 23rd.—High Street.—Defective W.C. Notice. Remedied.
Jan. 23rd.—Ditto—Defective ventilating pipe. Ditto
Jan. 25th.—Harold Wood.—Defective house drain. Ditto
Jan. 31st.—Emerson Park.—Blocked drain. Ditto
Feb. 6th.—South Hornchurch.—Foul ditch. Ditto
Feb. 12th.—Station Lane.—Defective W.C. Ditto