London's Pulse: Medical Officer of Health reports 1848-1972

View report page

Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London

Islington 1894

Thirty-ninth annual report on the health and sanitary condition of the Parish of St. Mary, Islington

This page requires JavaScript

Text

Copy text to clipboard

77
Dust-bins.—These were also disinfected (after emptying by the
Dustmen) during the long period that the weather continued warm.

Table: Disinfectants Distributed and used.—In the following statement particulars are given of the manner in which the disinfectants were distributed.

Disinfectants Distributed and used.—In the following statement particulars are given of the manner in which the disinfectants were distributed.

Disinfecting Powder.Crude Acid.Clear Acid.
Tons.Gallons.Gallons.
To Inhabitants457,08060
Works Dept.Horse and Depôt3640—
Sewers111,200–
Highways6350—
Totals988,67060

Text

Copy text to clipboard

There were, compared with the preceding year, 18 tons less
Powder, 608 gallons less Crude Acid, and 55 gallons less Clear
Acid used.

Table: SUMMARY OF SUMMONSES. Year ending 31st December, 1894.

SUMMARY OF SUMMONSES. Year ending 31st December, 1894.

Prosecutions.Successful.Dismissed.Withdrawn.
"Sale of Food and Drugs Acts, 1875-9"463628
"Public Health (London) Act, 1891"9867922
"Margarine Act, 1887"2323••••
16712611*30

Text

Copy text to clipboard

* In these cases the work was subsequently carried out.
Further particulars of these prosecutions will be given by the Vestry Clerk
in his Annual Report to the Vestry.