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Answer for the clue "F, to the Board of Health ", 10 letters:
unsanitary

Word definitions for unsanitary in dictionaries

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1871, from un- (1) "not" + sanitary (adj.).

WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
adj. not sanitary or healthful; "unsanitary open sewers"; "grim and unsanitary conditions" [syn: insanitary , unhealthful ] [ant: sanitary ]

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
a. unhealthy; dirty.

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
adjective EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ After an unsafe and unsanitary procedure, Rosie developed a raging infection. ▪ They alleged unsanitary conditions, lack of food and water, and insufficient cage space.

Usage examples of unsanitary.

Second - when the plague has finally been contained, arrangements should be made over a ten-year period for the gradual rehousing of blacks in areas where their unsanitary personal habits do not threaten decent Americans.

The medicine they carried, mostly tetracycline and metronidazole for dysentery contracted from eating spoiled food and from unsanitary living conditions, would give away their true purpose, for people in Babylon who had the mark and had taken the communion had no need for such medicines.

And here we see the effects of malnutrition and the effects of overcrowded, unsanitary shantytowns and overfilled garbage dumps and we see thin, ribby, curly-tailed dogs digging on heaps of decomposing rubbish on which children play and pick and shit.

The yetis perpetually unsanitary fur was clotted with foetid lumps of food that had somehow failed to make the journey to his mouth without mishap.

Pleading a suddenly unsanitary camp site, Fabius has picked himself and his two legions up and moved to a new camp site not far from Bibracte, on the Icauna near its sources, in case you need to know.

Here the problems were the lack of medical supplies and working medical equipment, inadequate or unstable energy supplies, contaminated water, inadequate sanitation, inadequate transportation, and unsanitary medical conditions.

Second - when the plague has finally been contained, arrangements should be made over a ten-year period for the gradual rehousing of blacks in areas where their unsanitary personal habits do not threaten decent Americans.

Ingram's insistence on proper personal hygiene, courtly manners, and impeccable dress for all his employees and his emphasis on cleanliness in the Castles were purposely designed to counter the stereotype of slovenly fry cooks preparing food in greasy and unsanitary conditions.

The friend's stable had to be reached through a back street where you might as easily have been poisoned without expense of drugs as in any grim street of that unsanitary period.