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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: TABLE II.SUMMARY OF WORKS EXECUTED UP TO THE 30TII JUNE, 1859.

TABLE II.

SUMMARY OF WORKS EXECUTED UP TO THE 30TII JUNE, 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 supply 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.Othernuisances removed, Dust, StagnantWater,&c.Dangerous Cellar Flaps and Area Gratings.
16749096458903536180414051250102545410561771011570374516209921512992431
SUMMARY OF WORKS EXECUTED FROM 30TH JUNE, TO 1st OCTOBER, 1859.
Total112998255009521228154233955117875466287205939
Gross Total17861008727945353618991617127811794321451182211816574249222612722215,051470

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* It will be seen in Table No 1, Column No. 1, that the total number of Nuisances removed is 15,603, 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 1 rapped and Panned. 3rd, Pipes to be laid from Siphous to Sewer, &e. If each of these were shown, as a distinct work executed, the number
in the lable and Column above alluded to, would be fully doubled.