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Appendix B.
METROPOLITAN BOROUGH OP WOOLWICH.
Health Rules.
" Prevention is better than Cure."
1. General Rules of Health.
2. Precautions against Measles.
3. The Prevention of Consumption.
4. How to Peed Baby.
The following leaflets, in a eollocted form, are sent to you by order of the
Health Committee of the Borough, with the request that, after having read
them, you will either hang them up, or carefully preserve them in a convenient
place for future reference.
The three chief requisites of health are cleanliness, fresh air, and pure
water. It is your duty to see that there is no lack of the two former in
your house.
SIDNEY DAVIES, M.D.,
Health Offices, Medical Officer of Health.
Maxey Road, Plumstead,
January, 1902.
General Rules of Health.
1. Use absolute cleanliness on your person.
2. Keep your house perfectly clean.
3. Do not allow any rubbish to remain in the yard, but keep the back
premises as neat and clean as the front.
4. If there is any defect in the roof, walls, floors, windows, or doors of
your house which you cannot repair yourself, complain to the landlord ;
if he does not attend to it, complain at the Borough Health Office, Maxey
Road.
5. Light is of great importance to health. A dark room should not be
used for living or sleeping. The light entering the windows should not be
obstructed in any way by curtains or blinds; if, however, this is necessary
for privacy, a very light muslin blind should be used in the lower part of
the window only.
6. Fresh air is equally important. The window of a room should
always be kept open, when anyone is in the room, day and night. In
summer it should be wide open, and in cold weather it can always be
opened a few inches at the top, or a "Hinckes-Bird" ventilator can be
provided by any joiner at a cost of a few pence.
7. Waterclosets should be flushed each time they are used. In addition
to this, every morning, about 10 o'clock, after all the slops have been
emptied, you should flush the closets with two or three pails of water.