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 Hackney]
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Details of house to house inspections made in the London Fields District during the year 1906 by Inspector Walter C. Vobe :—
Houses inspected | ... | ... | ... ... | 186 |
Intimation notices served ... | 160 | |||
Statutory notices served | 19 | |||
House or part in a dirty | ||||
condition | 84 | 13 | 56 | 15 |
House or part in a damp | ||||
condition | 45 | 5 | 36 | 4 |
House or part in a dilapidated | ||||
condition | 52 | 10 | 30 | 12 |
Inlet to the surface drain | ||||
improperly trapped | 4 | 0 | 4 | 0 |
W.C. so foul as to be a | ||||
nuisance ... | 22 | 3 | 16 | |
W.C. with a deficient supply | ||||
of water | 17 | 2 | 13 | 2 |
W.C. improperly constructed | 13 | 2 | 10 | 1 |
W.C. so defective as to be a | ||||
nuisance | 13 | 2 | 9 | 2 |
W.C. choked | 3 | — | 3 | — |
Insufficient external light and | ||||
ventilation to W.C. | 13 | 2 | 11 | — |
Soil pipe unventilated | 6 | 2 | 4 | — |
Defective yard paving | 36 | 6 | 24 | 6 |
Yard dirty | 10 | — | 4 | 6 |
Yard undrained | 2 | 2 | — | — |
Gully trap improperly placed | ||||
within the house | 11 | 2 | 7 | 2 |
Sink waste connected direct | ||||
to the drain | 6 | — | 4 | 2 |
Sink untrapped | 37 | 3 | 23 | 11 |
Sink defective | 5 | 2 | 2 | 1 |
Lavatory waste connected | ||||
direct to the drain | 1 | — | 1 | — |
Lavatory waste untrapped | 3 | — | 3 | — |