Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
Report on the sanitary condition of the Hackney District for the year 1897
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POLLUTION OF THE RIVER LEA.
REPORT OP THE PROCEEDINGS
of a
CONFERENCE of Members of Parliament, Members of the London
and Essex County Councils, and of public bodies of districts
along the banks of the River Lea, convened by the Public
Health Committee of the Hackey Vestry to consider the steps
to be taken to remedy the pollution of the said river, and held
at Hackney Town Hall, on October 13th, 1897.
Present :
Scoble, Sir Andrew, q.c., m.p. HacKney.
FoRMAN, E. B., m.d., M.R.c.P., l.c.c. „
Pearce, W., l.c.c. Limehouse Board of
Works.
Dixon, W. H „
Whittingham, W. B., alderman ... Essex County Council.
Thresh, J. C., d.sc., m.d., d.p.h.
(medical officer of health) „
Mcsguave, C. G. Leyton Urban District
Council.
Trumble, J „
Chapman, M ,,
Anderson, J., j.p Walthamstow Urban
District Council.
Geary, C. J. ,,
Gowen, E. S. (clerk)
Holmes, E. W. (engineer and
surveyor) „
McSheedy, J ,,