[Report 1892] / Medical Officer of Health, Leeds Borough.

  • Leeds (England). City Council.
Date:
1892
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Credit: [Report 1892] / Medical Officer of Health, Leeds Borough. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    disconnected; in 107 the sink waste was cut off from the sewer so far as the sink alone was concerned. Therefore in .107 out of 283? or 37*8 per cent, of the “ death-houses ” with this convenience, its waste-pipe was properly treated. Fifteen of the pleuro-pneumonia houses had sinks, these were all disconnected in 8 cases. In 7 there was no disconnection of the sink waste. Adding these to the former group, out of 29S death- houses in which sinks were present, the waste was correctly treated in 115 (38*6 per cent.). Here we are disregarding houses with no sink. Disconnected and not disconnected. In the u pneumonia houses there were other drainage defects, either of the water closet* or other inside drains, which reduced the 107 disconnected to 100, making the number of houses in which the inside drainage was structurally correct, 100 out of 297, or 33 7 per cent. Adding the 16 houses in which pleuro-pneumonia occurred, 106 (33*9 per cent.) out of 313 were correctly drained. Closet arrangements. The houses in which the 297 “ pneu¬ monia cases died had the use of 305 conveniences.! Rejecting 8 of these, which were extra in 7 houses, and classifying the houses according to the least advantageous form of closet, 8 of the 297, or 2*7 per cent., had a water closet with a properly ventilated soil- pipe ; 13, or 4*4 per cent., had an inside water closet with an inefficiently ventilated soil pipe ; 58, or 19*5 per cent., had a water closet outside, making 79, or 26*6 per cent., houses with ordinary water closet arrangements. Eighty-eight houses, or 29*6 per cent., had the use of a trough closet, and 130, or 43*8 per cent., of middens or pails. Adding the 16 pleuro-pneumonia houses, the correct inside water closets became 9 (2 9 per cent.) of the whole; the incorrect inside closets, 15 (4*8 per cent.) ; the outside water closets, 60 (19*1 per cent.) ; making 84 (26*8 per cent.) with water closets. Five, making 93 (29*7 per cent.), had the use of trough closets, and 6, making 136 (43’5 per cent.), had middens or pails. * See note to Table. t In some cases the convenience was common to two houses, but to avoid confusion such share of a closet is regarded as a closet.