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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 1931
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Stepney]
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RETURN OF SANITARY WORK, 1931.
| G. Bottomley. | A. C. Brown | R. W. G. Day | T. W. Dee. | E. J. Edwards. | E. W. Flint. | H. J. Green. | C. F. Guy. | H. O. Harris. | J. G. McCarthy. | G. O. Pavitt. (7 months) | R. Roper (Temporary) | W. Shepherd. | R. Simpson. | W. F. Smith. | S. H. V. Trimming. | J. Twaits. (3 months) | W. T. Twynham. | S. Vogler | R. H. Waterman. | Totals. | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Animals kept so as to constitute a nuisance removed | 2 | 3 | 6 | 2 | - | - | 4 | - | - | 1 | - | - | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | - | 4 | - | 1 | 27 |
| Areas and stables paved and drained | - | - | 1 | 1 | - | - | 12 | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 15 |
| Bakehouses : No. of cleansings | 20 | 26 | 2 | 6 | - | 11 | 18 | 14 | 14 | 22 | - | - | 10 | 14 | 31 | 24 | - | 30 | 1 | 10 | 253 |
| Cisterns cleansed and covered | - | - | 1 | 2 | - | 3 | 9 | 3 | 1 | - | - | - | 15 | - | 2 | - | - | 6 | - | 9 | 51 |
| Damp walls remedied | 35 | 203 | 100 | 52 | 54 | 103 | 141 | 84 | 96 | 52 | 16 | 78 | 66 | 45 | 191 | 228 | 8 | 83 | 160 | 95 | 1,890 |
| Drains—Cleansed or repaired | 49 | 83 | 44 | 38 | 70 | 56 | 69 | 41 | 32 | 53 | 50 | 57 | 30 | 118 | 5 | 83 | 17 | 96 | 47 | 39 | 1,077 |
| Constructed or reconstructed | 30 | 12 | 7 | 6 | 4 | 11 | 9 | 16 | 27 | 5 | 2 | - | 15 | 12 | 15 | 7 | - | 7 | 4 | 24 | 213 |
| Soil pipes fixed and ventilated | 18 | 2 | 5 | 14 | - | 8 | 15 | 18 | 7 | 4 | - | - | 11 | 12 | 4 | 1 | - | 7 | 3 | 13 | 142 |
| Trapped | 5 | - | 4 | 3 | - | 11 | 4 | 13 | 1 | - | - | 3 | 16 | 8 | - | - | 2 | - | 3 | 5 | 78 |
| Dust receptacles provided | 66 | 74 | 194 | 122 | 213 | 96 | 147 | 87 | 80 | 142 | 59 | 28 | 55 | 231 | 132 | 180 | 30 | 97 | 76 | 65 | 2,174 |
| Houses or parts of houses cleansed | 243 | 251 | 351 | 227 | 287 | 541 | 591 | 350 | 134 | 187 | 196 | 417 | 480 | 412 | 409 | 485 | 74 | 308 | 301 | 306 | 6,550 |
| Houses ventilated beneath the lower floor | 3 | 7 | - | 6 | 4 | 4 | 9 | 2 | 2 | 1 | - | 10 | 1 | 4 | 7 | 3 | - | 1 | 1 | 10 | 75 |
| Light and ventilation provided to rooms | 3 | 3 | 4 | 2 | - | 2 | 60 | 2 | 21 | 1 | - | - | - | - | 2 | 10 | - | 8 | - | 10 | 128 |
| Manure receptacles provided or reconstructed | - | - | 2 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 2 | 1 | - | - | 3 | 2 | - | 10 |
| Offensive accumulations removed | 4 | 32 | 51 | 38 | 30 | 13 | 39 | 6 | 26 | 4 | 4 | 15 | 45 | 8 | 5 | 17 | 1 | 71 | 35 | 8 | 452 |
| Open fires in yards abolished | - | 1 | 1 | - | - | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | - | - | 4 |
| Overcrowding in dwellings abated | 6 | l | 2 | 9 | - | 3 | 4 | 3 | 2 | - | l | l | 1 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 13 | 2 | 58 |