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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256
Dirty and dilapidated rooms, passages, washhouses and ceilings 282
Insanitary and defective soil pans and traps 73
No through ventilation under floors 121
Defective stack pipes, guttering and pointing 117
Defective yard and washhouse paving 209
Damp, defective house walls, floors, seats and walls of w.c.'s and
urinals 212
No water to w.c.'s and urinals 61
Defective and leaky main, washhouse and w.c. roofs 130
Overcrowding 14
Rain-water pipes directly connected to drains 22
Stables unpaved 9
Smoky chimneys 11
Choked rain-water pipes and gutters 25
Insanitary and defective traps 74
Accumulation of offensive matters 31
No dung pits 21
Dirty, defective, and uncovered cisterns 19
Forecourt defective and unpaved 52
Choked and overflowing drains 28
Defective main and branch drains 32
Unventilated soil pipes 6
Animals kept as to be a nuisance 13
Drinking water cisterns directly connected to w.c. 49
No receptacles for offal 5
Houses registered under the Bye-laws for Houses let in Lodgings . 5
Bodies removed to Mortuary 2
Dust complaints 9
Bakehouses and Slaughterhouses 18
Cowhouse 1