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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 1881
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Whitechapel]
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| Preliminary notices served, such notices embracing 367 premises | 231 |
| Compulsory orders issued, embracing 167 premises | 57 |
| Summonses heard at Police Courts, under Sanitary Act | 1 |
| ,, under Act for the prevention of Adulteration of Food, &c. | 1 |
| Cellars used as dwellings discontinued for such use | 1 |
| Cases of overcrowding and indecent occupation abated | 16 |
| Houses in which rooms or passages have been whitewashed | 197 |
| Rooms disinfected with sulphurous-acid gas, after the occurrence of small-pox, fever, and scarlet-fever therein | 119 |
| Articles, consisting of beds, bedding, clothing, &c., removed from rooms to the Stone Yard and disinfected in the Apparatus | 4258 |
| Yards of houses paved, or the pavement repaired | 20 |
| Drains in houses improved | 52 |
| Dust-bins provided | 7 |
| Privies lime-washed, cleansed and repaired | 91 |
| "Water supply provided or improved | 18 |
| Nuisances from dung and other offensive matter removed | 42 |
| Area gratings, cellar flaps, &c., repaired | 0 |
| Animals kept so as to be a nuisance, removed | 0 |
| Cesspools abolished | 0 |
| Nuisance from the retention of dead bodies in living rooms removed | 2 |
The Cow-houses in the District, 25 in number, and the Slaughterhouses,
14, have been visited during the Quarter.
In addition to this Return, the Inspectors report that they have
forwarded to the Metropolitan Board of Works several notices of
dangerous structures, which notices the Metropolitan Board have
promptly attended to.
I am, Gentlemen,
Your obedient Servant,
JOHN LIDDLE.
15, Great Alie Street.