The London health laws : a manual of the law affecting the housing and sanitary condition of Londoners, with special reference to the dwellings of the poor / issued by the Mansion House Council on the Dwellings of the Poor.

Date:
1894
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Credit: The London health laws : a manual of the law affecting the housing and sanitary condition of Londoners, with special reference to the dwellings of the poor / issued by the Mansion House Council on the Dwellings of the Poor. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    especially declared to bs the duty of the School Board, and it is the bnsiuess of its officers to find out and to deal with children to whom the special powers referred to may apply. Unhealthy Worh-places. Any factory, worlishop, or ivorlc-place, luhich is not a factory subject to the provisions of the Factory Act, 1878, relating to cleanliness, ventilation and overcroiuding, and (1) is not kept in a cleanly state and free from ejjiiivia. arising from any drain, privy, earth-closet, water-closet, urinal, or other nuisance; or (2) Is not ventilated in such a ma7mer as to render harmless, as far as practicable, any gases, vapours, dust, or other impurities generated in the course of the work carried on therein, that are a nuisance, or injurious, or dangerous, to health; or (3) Is so overcrowded while work is carried on as to be injurious or dangerous to the health of those employed therein} Dr. G. Danford Thomas lield an inquest at Holborn Town Hall on the body of a child, aged 5 years, daughter of a journey- man tailor working at his own home in Holborn. According to the mother of the deceased, she had now four children living, two of whom had been removed to a fever hos])ital. Her husband, her- self, and family, occupied three rooms at 5o, Devonshire {Street, two at the toi) and a kitchen in the basement.—Mr. Stripling, coroner's officer, said the top rooms were attics with a slanting roof.—The witness (continuing) said the first top room was used as a work-room, and the attic behind as a sleeping compartment. Her husband brought home garments to make up from tailors' shops, and usually had two assistants. On Monday, tlie olst ult., the deceased first became ill with pains in her head and legs, but witness thought she suffered from a cold, and Avas not alarmed about her until the following Saturday, when she set about securing the attendance of the parochial doctor. Dr. K. Taylor. He arrived about noon, but the child was then dead from, as he said, scarlet fever. Two younger children affected with scarlet fever were in the afternoon removed to a fever asylum.—Coroner : Is work going on in the front room now ?—Witness : No. Eeplying to the coroner, she said an ' awful smell' arose in a cellar on a level with a kitchen they occupied, which smell she attributed to defective drainage. The sanitary officials had, she believed, been written to about the nuisance. A builder had done some repairing J Section 2 (1 //). Sec also sections 26 and 27.
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