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Teddington 1902

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Teddington]

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INSPECTION AND OTHER
SANITARY WORK.
FACTORY AND WORKSHOP ACT.
A systematic inspection of the District was
made in October, November, and December.
Many of the usual insanitary conditions were
found, such as foul cesspools, overflowing and
stopped drains, defective and broken roof
gutterings, dilapidated dustbins or want of dustbins,
accumulation of rubbish and manure, dirty
yards, flushing cisterns out of order, defective
water closet apparatus, broken closet pans and
water pipes causing dampness of walls, untrapped
gullies, leaky cisterns, defective manure pits and
yard pavings, dirty pigstves, and broken ventilating
pipes. In all cases verbal and statutory notices
were given to occupiers or owners, and they were
duly complied with.
Apart from the systematic inspection, many
inspections were made in connection with infectious
diseases or complaints received.
Several occupiers of houses in Munster Road
(which is a private road) complained of the
insanitary and dangerous condition of their dwellings,
arising from cesspools into which their
houses were drained and which are so near to the
living rooms that sewage water leaks into the
basement. The frequent emptying of the cesspool
is also a great source of annoyance. The owner
was served with a notice to abate the nuisance and
provide proper means of drainage for the houses.
He agreed to drain eight houses in Munster Road
by laying down drain pipes in the roadway and to
connect them with the Council's sewer in Kingston
Road.