Report on the sanitary condition of the Parish of St. John, Hampstead for the year 1893.

Hampstead (London, England). Parish. Vestry.

Date:: 1894

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Credit: Report on the sanitary condition of the Parish of St. John, Hampstead for the year 1893. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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15 Disinfection.—Theepidemic of Scarlet Fever and Diphtheria has occasioned a heavy demand upon the disinfecting apparatus. No less than 10,618 articles having been submitted to disin fection, particulars of which will be found in Table III. The number of houses disinfected after infectious diseases was 602 or nearly 2 per day if we except Sundays. Complaints of Sewer emanations notwithstanding the dry summer have been somewhat less numerous than usual, and have all received the careful attention of the Sanitary Com mittee and Staff; additional ventilators have been provided in the streets, together with flushing tanks, reflux flaps, syphons, and special ventilating pipes at certain points, with beneficial effects. Local Wells.—The London County Council having requested to be furnished with a list of local wells, it was ascertained that four wells were still used for domestic purposes. Of these four wells, the waters of two were found, on the analysis of Professor Stokes, to be so polluted as to be unsafe for domestic use. Unsound Food.—Great care and attention was paid during the year to the question of unwholesome food, and the Inspectors were directed to occasionally visit the street markets after office hours, such as late on Saturday night, in order to prevent the sale of stale or unwholesome food. Bye-Laics.—Under the provisions of the Public Health (London) Act, 1891, sets of bye-laws have been made respectively by the Vestry and by the London County Council. Those by your Yestry are for the prevention of nuisances caused by matter in any street, such as snow, ashes

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