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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Factories and Workshops | Home-workers' Premises. | |
---|---|---|
Dirty yards | 3 | 22 |
Dirty or defective walls and ceilings | 241 | 473 |
„ „ floors | 24 | 80 |
Defective rcofs | 29 | 38 |
„ guttering and stack pipes | 31 | 60 |
„ window frames and sash lines | 15 | 20 |
„ stairs and treads | 13 | 15 |
„ handrails and banisters | 6 | 21 |
„ doors | 3 | 5 |
„ water fittings | 2 | 26 |
„ cisterns | 5 | 12 |
„ sinks | 2 | 5 |
„ coppers | 4 | 14 |
„ stoves | 2 | 10 |
„ water-closet pans and traps | 19 | 30 |
„ flushing apparatus | 14 | 35 |
„ soil pipes | 2 | — |
„ drains | 5 | 20 |
„ yard paving | 17 | 40 |
Choked drains | 8 | 12 |
No dust receptacle | 23 | 33 |
Water closets without doors | 2 | — |
Damp walls | 15 | 15 |
Failure to affix Abstract | 45 | — |
Abstract improperly filled in | 6 | — |
No homeworkers' lists kept | 17 | — |
Workrooms insufficiently ventilated | 4 | — |
Workrooms overcrowded | 6 | — |
Noxious fumes from gas stoves | 8 | — |
Insufficient water-closet accommodation | 1 | — |
Unsuitable water-closet accommodation | — | — |
No separate accommodation for the sexes | 3 | — |
575 | 986 |