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 Richmond]
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Floor drainage inadequate 3
Food preparation equipment unsatisfactory 58
Food rooms requiring reconstruction 17
Food storage unsatisfactory 22
Gutters leaking or defective 35
Hot water supply provided 6
Lighting inadequate 10
Paving inadequate or defective 6
R.W.Ps. ventilating drainage systems 2
R.W.Ps. broken or otherwise defective 33
Refuse accumulations 40
Refuse receptacles defective 37
Roofs leaking or defective 91
Rooms requiring cleansing 210
Sanitary accommodation insufficient.
Sanitary accommodation not separate for sexes 1
Sinks insanitary or defective 19
Sites requiring concrete
Soilpipes leaking or defective 19
Staircases defective 21
Ventilation of rooms inadequate 11
Verminous premises
Walls: plaster defective. 193
Walls: brickwork defective 28
Washing facilities in food premises inadequate 29
Wastepipes leaking or defective 29
Water fittings defective 36
Water supply inadequate
W.C.'s leaking or defective
178
Windows defective
126
Miscellaneous defects
1,690
At the end of the year, 1,322 of the defects discovered had been
abated, the work of remedying 85 was in hand, and the balance of
283 was still outstanding.
In order to see that the defects were being properly remedied 1158
visits were paid to the various premises.