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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
Marylebone 1898
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for St. Marylebone]
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TABLE III.—
| HOUSES— | |
| Requiring general repairs | 20 |
| Requiring ventilation under ground floor | 5 |
| Houses with damp walls | 28 |
| Roofs and roof gutters defective | 40 |
| Eaves gutters and down pipes defective | 51 |
| Rooms dirty | 331 |
| „ „ (notices to tenants) | 106 |
| Rooms overcrowded | 25 |
| Rooms requiring better ventilation | 29 |
| Passages and staircases dirty | 103 |
| BAKEHOUSES (Only 7 in the District)— | |
| Or the utensils used therein dirty | 1 |
| OFFICES OR WORKPLACES— | |
| Cleansed, whitewashed, &c. | 38 |
| Workplace overcrowded | 1 |
| ANIMALS— | |
| So kept as to be a nuisance | 14 |
| Stables repaved | 1 |
| „ redrained | 2 |
| Manure receptacles provided | 6 |
| ACCUMULATIONS OF REFUSE | 37 |
| SMOKE NUISANCES, 114 observations Notices | 10 |
| UNCLASSIFIED NUISANCES | 39 |
In addition to the foregoing, Notices were served in respect to No. 6
Melior Street, 92 Tooley Street, and Cotton's "Wharf, requiring the provision
of sanitary conveniences for female employes, but in each case, instead of
providing the accommodation, the females were discharged.
Six (temporary) new w.c.'s have been provided for the use of the employes
on the South Eastern Railway Extension.
And two temporary new w.c.'s were provided for the use of the employes
upon the old Brewery Ground between Vine Street and Stoney Lane.
For Report upon houses closed during the year, see pages 21 and 22.
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