London's Pulse: Medical Officer of Health reports 1848-1972
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Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
Richmond upon Thames 1956
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Richmond]
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| Firegrates and flues defective | 27 |
| First-aid equipment in food premises inadequate | 28 |
| Floors broken or otherwise defective | 61 |
| Floor drainage inadequate | 6 |
| Food preparation equipment unsatisfactory | 55 |
| Food rooms requiring reconstruction | 11 |
| Food storage unsatisfactory | 18 |
| Gutters leaking or defective | 71 |
| Hot water supply provided | 6 |
| Lighting inadequate | 4 |
| Paving inadequate or defective | 8 |
| R.W.Ps. ventilating drainage systems | 2 |
| R.W.Ps. broken or otherwise defective | 22 |
| Refuse accumulations | 49 |
| Refuse receptacles defective | 92 |
| Roofs leaking or defective | 131 |
| Rooms requiring cleansing | 100 |
| Sanitary accommodation insufficient | 2 |
| Sanitary accommodation not separate for sexes | — |
| Sinks insanitary or defective | 32 |
| Sites requiring concrete | 3 |
| Soilpipes leaking or defective | 19 |
| Staircases defective | 26 |
| Ventilation of rooms inadequate | 8 |
| Verminous premises | 3 |
| Walls: plaster defective | 186 |
| Walls: brickwork defective | 29 |
| Washing facilities in food premises inadequate | 23 |
| Wastepipes leaking or defective | 24 |
| Water fittings defective | 63 |
| Water supply inadequate | 24 |
| W.C.'s leaking or defective | 66 |
| Windows defective | 190 |
| Miscellaneous defects | 89 |
| 1,757 |