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The subjoined Notice was issued to householders during the year 1873.
PARISH OF SAINT MARY ABBOTTS,
KENSINGTON.
SANITARY NOTICE.
Parishioners are earnestly requested not to deposit animal or
vegetable refuse in their dust-bins, the decay of such matters,
especially in hot weather, when few ashes are made, causing
offensive smells injurious to health. All such refuse being, after
slight drying behind the fire, combustible in ordinary grates, may,
and should be burned, small quantities being placed on the fire
at a time.
Parishioners are further requested to have their water-cisterns
cleansed frequently, and particularly during the summer months.
The waste-pipe, if connected with a drain or soil-pipe, should be
effectually trapped, otherwise, the water will become polluted by
foul air to the great danger of health and life. In all cases when
practicable, however, the waste-pipe should be abolished, and an
overflow or warning pipe substituted. Cisterns should be carefully
covered to exclude dirt. Water closets should have an independent
water supply. A ventilating pipe, at least 1½ inch in diameter,
should be arranged so as to carry off into the open air the gas
generated in the soil-pipe of the W.C., and the waste-pipe of the
sink. The main drain of the house should also be ventilated and
trapped, so as to prevent the entrance into any part of the house of
sewer gas.
Impure air and polluted water being fertile sources of disease,
especially of diarrhœa, which is so fatal in summer, and of communicable
diseases, such as Typhoid Fever, &c., the important
the above recommendations must be obvious.
By Order of the Vestry,
T. ORME DUDFIELD, M.D.,
Vestry Hall, Kensington, Medical Officer of Health.
May, 1873.
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