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Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
Whitechapel 1859
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Whitechapel]
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TABLE II.—Summary of WORKS EXECUTED up to the 1st JANUARY, 1859.
| Limewhiting and Cleansing. | Dust-bins erected. | Houses repaired. | Yards and Cellars re-paved. | Water supplied for domestic use. | Larger supply of Water given. | Cesspools abolished. | Cesspools cleansed.—No Sewerage. | New House Drainage made. | House Drainage improved, Trapped, &c. | Cellars cleansed. | Filthy Privies cleansed. | Water supplied to Soil-pans. | New Privies constructed. | Pans to Privies provided. | Over-crowded Houses remedied. | Houses unfitted for Human habitation. | Ventilation improved. | Private Courts paved. | Filth in open places removed. | Dangerous structures. | Other Nuisances removed, Dust, Stagnant Water, &c. | Dangerous Cellar Flaps and Area Gratings. | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1467 | 762 | 563 | 798 | 35 | 36 | 1664 | 1157 | 1203 | 887 | 412 | 644 | 1627 | 50 | 1428 | 30 | 41 | 14 | 14 | 65 | 177 | 10,334 | 324 | ||
| Summary of WORKS EXECUTED from 1st JANUARY, 1859, to 31st MARCH, 1859. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Total | 98 | 49 | 43 | 34 | 0 | 0 | 67 | 49 | 24 | 65 | 23 | 167 | 49 | 6 | 69 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 13 | 29 | 1309 | 49 | |
| Gross Total | 1565 | 811 | 606 | 832 | 35 | 36 | 1731 | 1206 | 1227 | 952 | 435 | 811 | 1676 | 56 | 1497 | 32 | 41 | 14 | 16 | 78 | 206 | 11,643 | 373 | |
It will be seen in Table No. 1, Column No. 1, that the total number of Nuisances removed is 13,385, but that number does not give the details of each separate case.
For instance: The case may be an Offensive Privy—requiring, 1st. Cesspool to be emptied and filled up. 2nd. To be Trapped and Panned. 3rd. Pipes to be laid from
Pans to Sewer, &c. Pf each of these were shown as a distinct work executed, the number in the Table and Column above alluded to, would be about 24,032.