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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
Stepney 1930
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Stepney]
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RETURN OF SANITARY WORK, 1930.
| G. Bottomley. | A. C. Brown | R. W.G.Day (Temporary). | T. W. Dee. | E. J. Edwards. | E. W. Flint. | H. J. Green. | C. F. Guy. | H. O. Harris. | J. G. McCarthy. | G. O. Pavitt. | R. Roper (Temporary). | W. Shepherd. | R. Simpson. | W. F. Smith. | S. H. V. Trimming. | J. Twaits. | W. T. Twynham. | S. Vogler (Temporary). | R. H. Waterman. | Totals. | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Animals kept so as to constitute a nuisance removed | 1 | 5 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 3 | - | - | - | 1 | - | 1 | 2 | - | 3 | - | 3 | - | 1 | 31 |
| Areas and stables paved and drained | - | 1 | - | 1 | - | - | 2 | - | - | - | - | - | - | 3 | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | 8 |
| Bakehouses : No. of cleansings | 20 | 26 | - | 6 | 20 | 18 | 34 | 14 | 14 | 11 | 4 | - | 10 | 14 | 34 | 23 | 28 | 30 | — | 5 | 311 |
| Cisterns cleansed and covered | — | — | - | - | 3 | 11 | 1 | 1 | - | - | - | 8 | - | 2 | 1 | 2 | 14 | — | 7 | 52 | |
| Damp walls remedied | 71 | 164 | 110 | 49 | 47 | 40 | 142 | 68 | 78 | 78 | 61 | 155 | 41 | 29 | 201 | 119 | 55 | 79 | 300 | 97 | 1,984 |
| Drains—Cleansed or repaired | 55 | 87 | 75 | 55 | 37 | 39 | 55 | 37 | 24 | 55 | 79 | 61 | 26 | 119 | 53 | 51 | 35 | 78 | 33 | 47 | 1,101 |
| Constructed or reconstructed | 14 | 9 | 10 | 8 | 7 | 8 | 15 | 17 | — | 6 | 18 | - | 6 | 14 | 11 | 7 | 5 | 7 | 4 | 25 | 191 |
| Soil pipes fixed and ventilated | 7 | 3 | 6 | 26 | 2 | 10 | 35 | 21 | 4 | — | 3 | - | 5 | 8 | 9 | 6 | - | 4 | - | 6 | 155 |
| Trapped | 5 | 1 | 3 | 8 | — | 49 | 8 | 17 | — | — | 18 | — | 10 | 5 | — | 6 | 7 | - | — | 5 | 137 |
| Dust receptacles provided | 45 | 69 | 109 | 93 | 100 | 59 | 75 | 51 | 35 | 84 | 127 | 35 | 44 | 168 | 149 | 46 | 154 | 60 | 185 | 60 | 1,748 |
| Houses or parts of houses cleansed | 268 | 210 | 564 | 364 | 221 | 536 | 581 | 409 | 144 | 272 | 405 | 502 | 500 | 381 | 487 | 214 | 441 | 286 | 675 | ; 458 | 7,918 |
| Houses ventilated beneath the lower floor | 2 | 7 | - | 4 | - | 2 | 5 | 4 | 1 | - | 5 | - | 1 | 3 | 9 | 1 | 12 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 64 |
| Light and ventilation provided to rooms | 2 | 9 | 9 | 3 | - | 1 | 13 | - | 3 | 1 | - | - | 3 | - | 1 | - | 2 | - | - | - | 47 |
| Manure receptacles provided or reconstructed | — | 4 | 2 | 2 | - | 1 | - | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | 2 | - | - | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 16 |
| Offensive accumulations removed | 5 | 34 | 29 | 18 | 17 | 9 | 41 | 4 | 11 | 6 | 2 | 15 | 51 | 10 | 3 | 10 | 4 | 59 | 18 | 12 | |
| Open fires in yards abolished | 1 | 1 | — | — | - | — | — | 4 | — | — | 1 | — | 2 | - | - | - | - | 2 | - | 1 | 12 |
| Overcrowding in dwellings abated | 2 | 3 | - | 4 | - | 6 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 1 | - | 2 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 43 |