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Disinfected At The Town Hall


Calvin72

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Presume this is forerunner of Environmental health. Possibly to disinfect houses where diseases such as Cholera Typhoid Diphtheria etc are found?

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"Also nip round to the back door above it there carved for all to see it says 'DISINFECTANTS', apparently in Victorian Sheffield people who lived in the city were encouraged to go to this door and collect disinfectants to use in their homes and work places to try and keep down vermin of all types, bet you didn't know that?"

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I have had a word with a friend who, for very many years, used to be on the old Public Health Committee. She reckons in late Victorian times many people couldn't afford to buy disinfectants and in a campaign to eliminate many diseases the Corporation probably offered a subsidised or free supply of such things as "Carbolic"....hence the public doorway.

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