[Report 1899] / Medical Officer of Health, Leeds City.

  • Leeds City Council
Date:
1899
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Credit: [Report 1899] / Medical Officer of Health, Leeds City. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    had water-closets inside, while a little under 34 per cent, had outside water-closets. The numbers with water-closets of some kind were, as already said, 447 per cent, of all houses examined. It would not do to attach too much importance to the accidental examination of small numbers of closets, but it may be put on record that of 344 inside closets in severed through houses, 44, or nearly 13 per cent., were found defective; whilst of 70 through houses, with water-closets, in which the drains were not cut off, defects were found in 14, or 20 per cent. The corresponding numbers amongst the back-to- ack houses were 149 and 27, of which 14 and 37 per cent, showed drain defects. Taking the two groups together, 493 “severed houses” with inside closets furnished 13 per cent, which were defective in drainage ; the 97 houses “ not severed,” 25 per cent., or nearly double. It will be noted that the majority of these houses were not drain-tested. In previous reports I have shown that houses with water-closets inside give a larger percentage defective on testing than those with closets outside. Outside W.C.’s.—Of the houses with water-closets outside in 1,223 “severed,” 84 had obvious defects, or 7 percent. Of those not severed (593) 120 were defective, or 20 per cent., nearly three times as many. In both cases the number of those found defective was smaller than where the closet was inside. Trough-closets.—Of the 688 “ severed ” houses with trough- closets, 23, or 3 per cent., had obvious drain defects. Of 656 “unsevered,” 108, or 16 per cent., were defective. The number of throughs are so small in this class of house that they may