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 and Cheam]
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Number.
Floors of other premises cleansed 4
Rooms cleansed, distempered or repapered 705
Passages and staircases and landings cleansed,
distempered or repapered 91
Larders cleansed and distempered 25
W.C. Apartments cleansed and distempered 94
New windows provided 19
Windows repaired or made to open 199
New sash cords provided 344
Window sills provided or repaired 99
Doors provided or repaired 38
Thresholds to doors provided or repaired 20
Reveals to windows and doors repointed 292
Handrails to staircases provided 49
Staircases repaired 8
External paintwork renewed 4
Houses provided with a sufficient water supply 1
Water service pipes and cisterns repaired 7
Movable sanitary dustbins provided 68
Offal bins provided 12
Ranges and stoves provided or repaired 55
Hearths provided or repaired 7
Coppers provided or repaired 28
"Rooms" in Butchers' Shops and Stores
cleansed 11
Dairies and Food Shops cleansed 14
Bakehouses, Restaurant Kitchens and Workrooms
limewashed 42
Nuisances from keeping of animals abated 6
Nuisance from smoke abated 1
Accumulations of refuse removed 86
Accumulations of manure removed 7
Offensive ditches cleansed 2
Miscellaneous 290
Infectious Disease, Disinfection, &c.
Rooms disinfected after Notifiable Infectious
Diseases 210
Rooms disinfected after Tuberculosis and other
Diseases 61
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