Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for West Ham]
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Flushing Apparatus— | |
Repaired | 562 |
New provided | 438 |
Water Supply provided | 442 |
Yard Paving— | |
Repaired | 1 393 |
New provided | 294 |
Defects remedied in— | |
Roofs | 1,188 |
Floors | 541 |
Staircases | 30 |
Windows | 24 |
Doors | 35 |
Fireplaces | 52 |
Walls and ceilings | 3,950 |
Earth Closets or Privies— | |
New provided | 1 |
Cesspools— | |
Cleansed | 2 |
New provided | 1 |
Abolished | 11 |
Ditches, Urinals, &c.— | |
Cleansed | 4 |
Animals improperly kept | 45 |
Offensive accumulations | 186 |
Carried forward | 16,408 |