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 Camberwell]
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(c.) Any urinal kept in such place or manner as to be
a nuisance, &c.
(d.) Any accumulation or deposit which is a
nuisance, &c.
(e.) Any house, or part of a house, so overcrowded as
to be injurious or dangerous to the health of the inmates,
whether or not members of the same family.
(f.) Any such absence from premises of water-fittings
as is a nuisance, by virtue of Section 33 of the Metropolis
Water Act, 1871. [Also by Section 48, and occupied house
without a proper and sufficient supply of water, is a nuisance,
liable to be dealt with summarily.]
(g.) Any factory, workshop, or workplace which is
not a factory subject to the provisions of the Factory and
Workshops Act, 1878, relating to cleanliness, ventilation,
and overcrowding, and which offends in any of these
respects.
By Section 24 any fire-place or furnace employed in
any manufacturing or trade process, which does not, as far
as practicable consume its own smoke, and any chimney
(not being the chimney of a private dwelling house) sending
forth black smoke in such quantity as to be a nuisance, are
to be dealt with summarily, in the same manner as the
foregoing nuisances.
Section 95 enacts that tents, vans, sheds, or similar
structures used for human habitation; and Section 110,
that any vessel lying in any river or other water within the
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