Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Bromley]
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TRADE PREMISES:
Factories and Workshops— | |
Want of cleanliness | 5 |
Want of ventilation | — |
Overcrowding | — |
Want of drainage to floors | — |
Other nuisances | 6 |
Sanitary accommodation— | |
Insufficient | — |
Unsuitable or defective | 3 |
Not separate for sexes | 2 |
Shops Acts—contraventions | 22 |
Outworkers' premises | 6 |
FOOD PREPARING PLACES: | |
Yards, floors repaired, etc., cleansing, limewashing, light, and ventilation improved; refuse bins provided, sanitary conditions improved, etc. | |
Dairies and cowsheds | 9 |
Slaughterhouses | |
Greengrocery shops | 11 |
Hotels, restaurants, etc. | 3 |
Bakehouses | 49 |
Grocers' shops | 18 |
Butchers' shops | 31 |
Fish shops | 5 o |
Confectionery shops | 3 |
Fried fish shops | 1 |
Food store, unsatisfactory and abolished | l |
MISCELLANEOUS: | |
Stream nuisances | 1 |
Urinals cleansed | 3 |
Animal nuisances | 5 |
Accumulations removed | 44 |
Manure receptacles provided | 35 |
Manure removed | 7 |
Stables cleansed | 2 |
Rat nuisances | 43 |
Other nuisances | 12 |
Total | 5824 |