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Surbiton 1908

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Surbiton]

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,, letters written on the business of
the department 800
,, houses and premises disinfected 48
Number and Nature of Nuisances dealt with.
Defective drains cleansed, repaired, trapped, etc. 39
Stoneware gullies fixed in lieu of defective
brick and iron bell traps 173
Houses subsoil drained 4
Water-closet apartments re-built ' 4
Water-closet apartments lighted or ventilated 3
Water-closet pans cleansed or repaired 5
Old iron container and long hopper pans abolished
and pans of an approved form fixed 135
Water-closet flush pipes disconnected from
domestic supply cisterns and separate flushing
cisterns fixed 26
Closets supplied with water 6
Defective water-closet flushing cisterns repaired 67
Defective flushing cisterns removed and new
ones fixed 50
Soil pipes repaired 11
New soil pipes fixed 50
Soil pipes inside dwelling-houses removed and
fixed outside 2
Soil pipes ventilated 1
Defective ventilating pipes repaired 5
Storage cisterns cleansed 7
Storage cisterns provided with covers 7
Storage cisterns (new) provided 1
Sink and other waste pipes trapped or disconnected
from drain 30
Sink and other waste pipes repaired 12
Defective sinks abolished and new glazed stoneware
sinks fixed 22
New waste pipes provided to sinks, etc. 73
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