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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
Stepney 1938
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Stepney]
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RETURN OF SANITARY WORK, 1938
| W. E. Anstee. | J. H. Brownlee. | J. J. Coveney. | W. Cue. | R. W. G. Day | G. D. Freeland. | H. J. Green. | C. F. Guy. | W. H. Haworth | W. H. Howard. | J. Keniry. | S. Lowther. | J. G. McCarthy. | R. Roper. | W. F. Smith. | W. T. Twynham. | E. P. Webber. | Totals. | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Animals kept so as to constitute a nuisance, removed | - | 3 | - | - | - | - | 2 | 1 | - | 2 | 1 | - | - | 5 | 1 | 3 | - | 18 |
| Bakehouses: No.of cleansingsof | 17 | 20 | 10 | - | 15 | 20 | 14 | 14 | 12 | 8 | 1 | 10 | 16 | 11 | 34 | 43 | - | 245 |
| Cisterns cleansed, covered and repaired | 5 | 34 | - | - | - | - | 31 | 1 | 11 | - | 5 | 8 | 1 | 12 | 1 | 18 | - | 127 |
| Dampness in premises remedied | 67 | 111 | 126 | 94 | 167 | 129 | 92 | 103 | 115 | 105 | 82 | 183 | 251 | 156 | 223 | 205 | 43 | 2,252 |
| Drains—Cleansed or repaired | 40 | 68 | 44 | 23 | 101 | 71 | 51 | 59 | 60 | 72 | 59 | 30 | 50 | 81 | 97 | 55 | 24 | 985 |
| Constructed or reconstructed | 21 | 38 | 67 | 32 | 15 | 10 | 10 | 14 | 22 | 22 | 68 | 53 | 11 | 68 | 21 | 20 | 2 | 504 |
| Dust receptacles provided | 63 | 81 | 44 | 71 | 111 | 92 | 46 | 178 | 60 | 195 | 87 | 84 | 196 | 69 | 49 | 41 | 24 | 1,501 |
| Number of dwelling rooms cleansed | 291 | 349 | 357 | 528 | 916 | 413 | 356 | 419 | 226 | 485 | 236 | 468 | 753 | 351 | 274 | 324 | 44 | 6,796 |
| Houses ventilated beneath the ower floor | 8 | 7 | - | 27 | - | - | - | 3 | 9 | 3 | 1 | - | 4 | - | 26 | - | - | 88 |
| Improved light and ventilation provided to rooms | 2 | 7 | 2 | 7 | 1 | - | - | - | 13 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 1 | - | 24 | - | - | 67 |
| Manure receptacles provided or reconstructed | - | - | 12 | - | - | - | - | 2 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 14 |
| Offensive accumulations removed | 7 | 40 | 17 | 5 | 16 | 51 | 46 | 12 | 54 | 15 | 34 | 28 | 14 | 48 | 12 | 65 | 14 | 479 |