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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 1888

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Whitechapel]

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Table: T ABLE P.—SANITARY AND OTHER WORK PERFORMED BY THE INSPECTORS.

T ABLE P.—SANITARY AND OTHER WORK PERFORMED BY THE INSPECTORS.

Classification of Work.Quarter ending March 31st.Quarter ending June 30th.Quarter ending Sept. 29th.Quarter ending December 31st.Totals for the year.
Numbers of Inspections of Houses as shewn in the Official Returns325933802422191510976
Houses specially visited2483192712291067
Houses specially re-visited99212768127303810
Preliminary Notices served, such Notices embracing 1371 premises222288256227993
Compulsory Orders issued, embracing 502 premises77805466277
Summonses heard at Police Court under Sanitary Act24......6
„ ,, ,, Adulteration of Food and Drugs Acts63......9
„ ,, ,, Bakehouses Act...4......4
Cellars used as dwellings, caused to be discontinued to be so used132612
Cases of overcrowding and indecent occupation abated...4217
Houses in which rooms or passages have been whitewashed75215119161570
Roofs of houses repaired6...83953
Rooms disinfected with sulphurous acid gas, after the occurrence of cases of infectious diseases23475039159
Articles consisting of beds, bedding, clothing, &c., removed to the stone-yard, and there disinfected.6661167172517115269
Articles burnt by consent21302148120
Yards of houses paved, or the paving repaired529564110321
Drains in houses improved871285987361
Closets limewashed, cleansed and repaired64225169149607
Closets provided with a flushing apparatus and water supply841846595428
Defective water fittings to closets repaired1717183385
Water supply to houses improved51531758
Nuisances arising from dung and other offensive matter removed37302240120
Area-gratings, cellar-flaps, &c., repaired1817171264
Houses closed by Magistrate's order, or by consent, as unfit for human habitation102315
Visits to cow-houses in the District2020202080
„ slaughter-houses in the District1313131352
,, bakehouses in the District41...41...82
Dust-bins provided, or improved3...2...5
Samples under Food and Drugs Act submitted to Public Analyst34393429136
Cesspools abolished...............
Animals. &c., kept so as to constitute a nuisance, removed...............
Trades' nuisances abolished...............
Obstructions in the streets abated............. ..
Casks of putrid meat destroyed as unfit for human food.........2020

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Ill 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.
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