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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
Surbiton 1910
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Surbiton]
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| Number of Complaints received and investigated | 119 |
| „ Preliminary notices served | 133 |
| „ Statutory notices served | 106 |
| „ Letters written on the business of the Department | 732 |
| „ Plans of houses re-drained prepared | 92 |
| „ Houses and premises disinfected | 48 |
Description and Number of Nuisances Dealt
With.
Defective drains repaired, cleansed, trapped, etc. 39
Approved iron or glazed stoneware gullies fixed
in lieu of defective stoneware, brick, or iron bell
traps 225
Cesspools abolished 1
Houses subsoil drained 1
Overflow pipes disconnected from drains or soil
pipes and made to discharge into the open air 1
Dilapidated water closets pulled down and rebuilt .11
Floors of water closets paved or repaired 24
Defective water closet walls rendered internally
with cement 14
Water closet apartments lighted and ventilated 4
Water closet pans cleansed or repaired 7
Old iron container, long hopper or washout pans
abolished and pans of an approved type fixed 152
Water closet flush pipes disconnected from domestic
supply cisterns, and separate flushing cisterns
provided 16
Defective water closet flushing cisterns repaired 67
Defective water closet flushing cisterns removed and
new ones fixed 46
Closets supplied with water 1
Defective soil pipes repaired 24
Defective soil pipes removed and new ones fixed 35
Defective soil pipes inside dwelling houses removed
and new soil pipes fixed outside 1
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