Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Shoreditch, Parish of St. Leonard]
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I have to point to the large increase of typhus and typhoid fever this
year in the Parish over the former year.
Several cesspools situated at Socrates Place, New Inn Broadway,
found covered up with boards and stone.
I wish also to draw attention to the overcrowding (in many cases
indecent overcrowding in this Parish, numbers of houses have been and
are being demolished for the building of warehouses, churches, and
other properties. Numbers of the working classes are by these means
driven from their homes to seek shelter elsewhere, whose occupations
compel them to live near their daily employment. They are therefore
obliged to get into almost any place, often places totally unfit for so
many to reside in, frequently they are underground dwellings contrary
to 67th section of the Public Health Act.
2000 houses have been visited as house to house visitation,
independently of
339 houses that have been visited where contagious diseases have
existed, and orders made to disinfect these premises; in some
instances done by the Inspectors.
87 proper Water Closets have been erected.
22 Cesspools have been abolished.
703 House Drains cleansed and repaired, in many instances the old
brick drains have been taken out and glazed pipes laid down, and
thus a far more efficient drain provided.
145 Houses have been drained into sewers.
447 Houses where the surface drainage of the yards were defective
have been repaved.
421, Walls of Yards have been cleansed and limewhited, thereby
adding to the light and comfort of the back rooms.
213 Houses have been repaired.
55 Houses have been closed, being unfit for human habitation, and
the owners preferring to close them rather than to do the necessary
repairs.
Dust Bins have been provided for 270 houses.
110 New Cisterns.
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Subsidiary Names Abolished. | Number of Houses. | |
---|---|---|
Curtain Road | 154 | |
Bridport Place | 139 | |
Pownall Road | 8 | 133 |
Wenlock Street | 2 | 101 |
Kingsland Road Hoxton Street (late | 292 | |
Hoxton Town) | 311 | |
Brougham Road, (late Victoria Road) | 9 | 105 |
Albion Road | 3 | 21 |
New North Road | 12 | 180 |
Finsbury Avenue (late Long Alleys | ||
East Road | 145 | |
Shepherdess Walk | 10 | 148 |
Goldsmith's Row | 2 | 168 |
Worship Street | 1 | 121 |
Great Cambridge Street | 1 | 147 |
Weymouth Terrace | 135 | |
Phillip Street | 1 | 127 |
Brunswick Place | 2 | 62 |
York Street | 1 | 50 |
Brunswick Street | 3 | 139 |
Hows Street (late York Street) | 1 | 84 |
Haggerstone Rond | 6 | 119 |
Canal Road | 2 | 73 |
Sun Street (late Crown Street) | 1 | 42 |
Northport street | 0 | 32 |
Sclater Street (late Bydes Place | 0 | 15 |
Bethnal Green Road (late Church Street) | 0 | 11 |