London's Pulse: Medical Officer of Health reports 1848-1972

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Rotherhithe 1896

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Rotherhithe]

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251
Tabulated Statement.
*Report of the Sanitary Work, etc., during the year ending 31st December, 1807.
Houses and premises inspected 1189
Infected houses inspected 299
Intimations served 932
Statutory notices served 335
Rooms cleansed and disinfected 132
Bedding destroyed 53
Bedding purified 81
Defective water fittings and inefficient supplies 50
Waste pipes connected with drains 61
Dirty and dilapidated rooms, passages and wash-houses 565
Insanitary and defective w.c. pans and traps 155
No through ventilation under floors 311
Defective stack pipes, guttering and pointing 229
Defective yard and wash-house paving 436
Damp, defective house walls, floors, seats and walls of w.c. 392
No water to w.c. and urinals 85
Defective main, wash-house and w.c. roofs 220
Overcrowding 23
Stack pipes directly connected with drain 36
Stables unpaved 10
Smoke nuisances abated. 7
Choked rain-water pipes and gutters 55 .
Insanitary and defective tra136ps
Drains unstopped and cleansed
Accumulation of offensive matters 40
No receptacles for dung 11
Dirty, defective and uncovered cisterns 43
Forecourts, defective and unpaved 65
Defective main and branch drains .