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Bethnal Green 1889

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Bethnal Green]

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DETAILED SCHEDULE OF INSTRUCTIONS-continued.
21.—AV.C. accommodation insufficient.
Provide additional w.c. accommodation.
22.—No drain in yard or stable.
Construct a proper drain in yard (or
stable), with a properly trapped
inlet gully, arranged so as to carry
off the (surface water.
23.—No trap to yard drain.
Provide and fix, in connection with
the drain inlet, a glazed stoneware
syphon gully.
24.—Defective drain (brick drain),
leaky drain.
Remove defective (brick) drain and
replace with good glazed stoneware
pipes, laid with a sufficient
fall to rapidly take away all sewage
matter, proper junctions to be used
where necessary and all joints to be
made water-tight, all inlets to be
properly trapped with glazed stoneware
syphon gullies.
25.—Cesspool.
Thoroughly break up and destroy
cesspool, carefully remove all bricks
and foul earth, and fill up with dry
rubbish.
26.—Walls of yard dirty.
Cleanse and lime-white walls of
yard.
27.—No ashbin.
Construct a covered ashbin.
28.—Ashbin dilapidated, no cover.
Repair ashbin and provide cover for
same.
29.—Cellar illegally occupied.
Discontinue occupation of cellar for
sleeping purposes.
30.—House or room overcrowded.
Abate the overcrowding.