London's Pulse: Medical Officer of Health reports 1848-1972

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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

West Ham 1893

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for West Ham]

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Fire grates defective43
Stables dilapidated2
To provide water tank3
To connect drains to sewer45
Washing copper defective2
To cleanse and fill up cesspools57
To furnish new guttering14
Insufficient ventilation21
T o provide dung pits4
To furnish an intercepting trap1
To remove soil pipes24
To cleanse yard1
To prevent shooting house refuse4
To close and cover inspection chamber10
To alter soil pipes48
To abate nuisance from offensive urinal2
Cases of no flushing apparatus to w.c. reported to town clerk202
Gipsy notices served20
Total10,441

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1,397 rooms in 1,277 houses were disinfected.