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 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 Place | 29 | A cul de sac |
Bakers Row | 11 | |
Bath Court | 1 | |
Bath Row | 1 | |
Baynes Court | 2 | |
Berkley Court | 3 | A cul de sac out of Berkley Street |
Bishop's Court | 12 | A cul de sac |
Bowling Green Lane | 2 | |
Caroline Place | 4 | A cul de sac entered under house in Goswell Road |
Chapel Row | 9 | |
Coburg Street | 1 | |
Compton Passage | 9 | |
Corporation Row | 5 | Defects now being remedied |
Crawford Place | Defects remedied | |
Crawford Passage | 2 | |
Douglas Place | 5 | All defects remedied |
Easton Place | 10 | A cul de sac entered under house in Easton Street |