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Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London

Bethnal Green 1889

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

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Table: DETAILED SCHEDULE OF INSTRUCTIONS-continued.

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.