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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Mr. Ball voted in the majority against tenement regulations in.
Paget, 17,504.
It cannot be said that Mr. Ball is a leading member on the
vestry of, Paget, 17,565, 17,566.
Mr. Ball has only been vice-chairman of one committee during
his 11 years connexion with the vestry of, Paget, 17,567.
Mr. Ball is vice-chairman of a very important committee in, viz.,
the assessment committee, Paget, 17,568.
Mr. Ball is highly esteemed in, Paget, 17,568.
Vestry of, do not think it wrong to make Mr. Ball or any other
respectable man chairman of their committees, Paget, 17,568.
Vestry of, in electing chairmen of committees look to their fitness
for the work, and do not inquire whether they own property,
Paget, 17,568.
As Mr. Ball holds his property in, under the Marquess of Northampton,
if necessary repairs are not done, is not the remedy
in the Marquess' own hands? Paget, 17,569.
Mr. Ball is no now tenant of the Marquess of Northampton; is
it only now discovered that he does not do repairs ? Paget,
17,570.
Vestry of, abate overcrowding and bad sanitation when found
out, without having tenement regulations, Paget, 17,571,
17,572, 17,576, 17,702, 17,729, 17,731.
If Mr. Bates had reported the case of overcrowding on Mr. Ball's
property to the vestry of, it would have been stopped at once,
Paget, 17,571-17,576.
Overcrowding would not be more easily abated if tenement
regulations were adopted in, Paget, 17,572.
Vestry serve a printed circular on owner immediately overcrowding
ia reported to them, Paget, 17,576, 17,729.
Yery likely Mr. Ball's property in Spencer Place is in bad condition,
Paget, 17,577.
Have the complainants of overcrowding in, ever lodged a complaint
at the Yestry Hall? Paget, 17,578.
Complaints of smells have been made at the Yestry Hall, but
not of overcrowding, Paget, 17,579.
Sanitary inspectors take a general survey of the several districts
of, irrespective of any complaints, Paget, 17,580.
Sanitary inspectors are expected to visit places about once a
fortnight or once a month, Paget, 17,581.
The vestry believe that Clerkenwell is not so bad as represented,
especially if the death-rate is any criterion, Paget, 17,582.
The death-rate put forward was a corrected death-rate, Paget,
17,583,