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 Sutton]
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Particulars of work done by owners or occupiers for
the abatement of nuisances in compliance
with notices.
Number of privies, cesspools, ditches, pools,
water courses, urinals, ashpits, and drains
cleansed, and number of deposits removed 158
Number of new privies or water closets
provided —
Number of premises at which the drains were
reconstructed, ventilated, trapped, or disconnected
from the house pipes 16
Number of houses at which the water closets
were provided with water under Sec. 36 of
the Public Health Act, 1875 —
Number of premises from which animals improperly
kept were removed 1
Number of houses which were provided with
efficient ventilation 40
Number of houses at which injurious overcrowding
was abated 1
Legal proceedings taken under Sec. 96 for the
abatement of nuisances (number of times) —
Houses closed as unfit for human habitation —
Number of houses at which disinfection was
carried out after notice, under Section 5 of
the Infectious Diseases (Prevention) Act,
1890 29
Number of houses at which disinfection was
carried out after Tuberculosis 29
Number of foul houses cleansed and whitewashed,
after notice under Section 46 of the
Public Health Act, 1875 21
Number of premises from which offensive
accumulations have been removed after
notice, under Sec. 49 of the Public Health
Act, 1875 5
Surrender of unwholesome meat, fish, poultry,
fruit, vegetables, corn, bread, flour, or milk 5