London's Pulse: Medical Officer of Health reports 1848-1972

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Rotherhithe 1897

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Rotherhithe]

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159
Defective water fittings and inefficient supplies 39
Sink waste pipes directly connected to drains 43
Dirty and dilapidated 100ms, passages, wash-houses and ceilings 464
No through ventilation under floors 330
Insanitary and defective pans and traps 153
Defective stack pipes, guttering and pointing 301
Defective yard and wash-house paving 118
Damp, defective house walls, floors, seats and walls of w.c.'s and urinals 375
No water to w.c.'s and urinals 139
Defective and leaky main, wash-house and w.c. roofs 212
Overcrowding 12
Rain-water pipes directly connected to drains 34
Stables unpaved 11
Smoky nuisances abated 21
Choked rainwater pipes and gutters 60
Insanitary and defective traps 174
Accumulations of offensive matter 58
No dung pits 29
Dirty, defective and uncovered cisterns 17
Forecourts defective and unpaved 166
Choked and overflowing drains 45
Defective main and branch drains59
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Unventilated soil pipes 5
Animals kept so as to be a nuisance 32
Drinking water cistern directly connected to w.c 29
No receptacle to offal 9
Bodies removed to Mortuary 2
Dust complaints 12
Bakehouses and slaughter houses 19
Cow-houses 1
Workshops and factories 7
HENRY
M. COCKBURN.

House-to-House Inspection.

From January to December, 1897.

Galleywall RoadClarehall Place
Reed StreetTrident Street
Maynard RoadChilton Street
Osprey StreetOld Road
Yeoman StreetBush Road
Rotherhithe New RoadYork Place
Randell's RentsTrinity Road
Dilston GroveSuffolk Street
Hobman StreetHothfield Place
Hawkstone RoadAspinden Road
Westlake RoadSilverlock Street
Derrick StreetSedgers Buildings
Castles BuildingsGilbert Terrace.

Overcrowding.

19, Trident Street14, Westlake Road
7, Oldfield Place9, Silver Street
34, Parfitt Road2, Chilton Street
26, Debnam's Road80, Eugenia Road,