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 Westminster]
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32
Inspector Dee's Report of the Sanitary Work completed
in the Parish of St. Margaret for the Year 1895.
Inspections made 1,273
Defects found 1,431
Notices served 763
Works completed 775
Notices outstanding, 1894 61
Notices uncomplied, 1895 49
Details of defects found under headings as in Report
Book:—
W.C. supplied from drinking water cistern 13
W.C. without water supply 45
W.C. dirty, defective or not ventilated 255
New cisterns 7
Cisterns without covers and foul 6
Waste-pipe from sink into drains 4:8
Water apparatus defective 68
Dust bins defective, or new one required 28
Rooms dirty 102
Passages or staircase dirty 18
Rooms overcrowded 32
Houses or rooms requiring disinfection 133
Underground rooms illegally occupied 11
Drains stopped 65
Defective brick or pipe drains 123
Defective traps to drains 240
Yard paving defective 12
Walls of yards or wash-houses to be lime-whited 7
Stables or cowsheds dirty or defective in respect
of drainage 2
Accumulation of refuse 45
Bakehouses dirty 1
Miscellaneous 170
1431
Inspector McNair's Report of the Sanitary Work completed
in St. John's Parish for the year 1895.
Number of premises inspected 1,308
„ intimations, notices, &c., served 844
,, houses, &c.,in which works are completed 864
,, defects found 1,828
,, notices, &c., outstanding, 1894 84
,, notices, &c., uncomplied, 1895 76