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 Rotherhithe]
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Appendix A.
Report of Sanitary Inspector for the Northern District.
Report of the Sanitary Work, etc., daring the year ending 31st December, 1898.
Houses and premises inspected 1064
Re-inspections 1956
Infected houses inspected 175
Intimation notices served 926
Statutory notices served 182
Rooms disinfected (after infectious disease) 96
Bedding destroyed nil
Bedding purified nil
Defective water fittings and inefficient supplies 148
Dirty and dilapidated rooms, passages and wash-houses 392
Insanitary and defective w.c. pans and traps 96
No through ventilation under floors 113
Defective stack pipes, guttering, flooring, window sashes, etc. 354
Defective yard and wash-house paving 446
Damp and defective house walls 88
W.C.'s and urinals without water 28
Defective main, wash-house and w.c. roofs 136
Overcrowding 16
Sink waste and stack pipes directly connected with drains 43
Stables unpaved 1
Smoke nuisances abated 32