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Clerkenwell 1885

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Clerkenwell, St. James and St. John]

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In the last named list some of the houses in Mount Pleasant, the
houses in Back Hill, Faulkner's Alley, White Horse Alley, and Pump
Court, included in the first list, were omitted as being outside the
Parish of Clorkenwell.
I also inspected other houses not included in the lists above referred
to, but in which I was informed sanitary defects might be found.
The list first supplied by the Mansion House Council comprised 234
houses, and the amended list 277 houses, the sanitary defects alleged
to exist in such houses being:—
Want of water supply to closets.
Defective pans aud defective water apparatus to closets.
Deficient water supply and defective or uncovered cisterns.
Untrapped or defective yard gullies.
Untrapped or defective sinks.
Unpaved or badly paved yards.
Want of dustbins and dilapidated and defective dustbins.
Dilapidated houses, e.g., defective roofs, damp walls and ceilings,
broken flooring, &c., overcrowding.

The following is a statement of the streets and houses inspected, and the sanitary defects found to exist in some:—

Names of Streets, Courts, &c.Number of Houses Inspected.Remarks.
South of Vestry Hall
Aylesbury Place29A cul de sac
Bakers Row11
Bath Court1
Bath Row1
Baynes Court2
Berkley Court3A cul de sac out of Berkley Street
Bishop's Court12A cul de sac
Bowling Green Lane2
Caroline Place4A cul de sac entered under house in Goswell Road
Chapel Row9
Coburg Street1
Compton Passage9
Corporation Row5Defects now being remedied
Crawford PlaceDefects remedied
Crawford Passage2
Douglas Place5All defects remedied
Easton Place10A cul de sac entered under house in Easton Street