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 Bethnal Green]
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Detailed Schedule of Instructions.
1.—Walls, ceilings, and woodwork of
rooms, staircases, and passages,
dirty and dilapidated.
2.—Walls damp (specify which).
3.—Ventilation and lighting of rooms,
staircases, and passages defective.
4.—Roof leaky.
6.—Gutters and R. W. P. defective.
6.—Paving of yard defective.
7.—Paving of yard insufficient,—no
yard paving.
8.—Bell trap, defective trap, or badly
set trap.
9.—R. W. pipe connected with drain.
Strip walls and ceilings of (specify
which rooms), remove all decayed
planter, and make good and properly
cleans) and lime-white. Cleanse all
woodwork and repair where
necessary.
Remove cause of dampness.
Improve the ventilation and lighting
of rooms, staircases and passages.
Repair roof and make same watertight.
Make good gutters of
Make good the paving of yard.
Sufficiently pave yard with impervious
paring, having a proper slope to the
gully, such paving to extend the
whole length of the back front and
to bo of a width of at least three
feet from the wall of the house.
Remove defective trap and fix an
earthenware syphon gully in
place.
Disconnect R. W. pipe from drain and
cause same to discharge over a
trapped gully.