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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 1896

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

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Table: Notices to abate Nuisances, or remedy Defects, served during the year 1896.

Notices to abate Nuisances, or remedy Defects, served during the year 1896.

Drains choked500
To ventilate drains215
To cleanse w.c. pans167
To provide new pans and traps917
To provide flushing apparatus498
To provide gully traps520
Stack pipes to drains550
:Sink pipes to drains276
Drains defective978
Flushing apparatus defective583
Stack pipes do.347
Sink pipes do.272
Gutters do.849
Water fittings do.89
Floors do.593
Roofs do.1039
Doors do.31
Windows do.60
Staircases do.50
Seats of w.c.'s do.121
Walls and ceilings do. or dirty3099
Walls and ceilings of bake-houses defective or dirty11
W.C.'s dilapidated7
Offensive accumulations162
Animals improperly kept55
Overcrowding146
To repair paving of yards1333
To pave and drain stables8
Provide proper water supply850
To cleanse water tanks220
To cover water tanks528
To provide iron grids to gullies58
Carried forward15,132