London's Pulse: Medical Officer of Health reports 1848-1972
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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
City of London 1894
Report on the sanitary condition of the City of London for the year 1894
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at an uniform temperature, and limiting, as far
as possible, mental disquiet and business
worries.
It would also be prudent for all persons to
submit to revaccination of themselves, their
families, and employes, there being some
indications of a visitation of small-pox.
SUMMER FLUSHING OF COURTS
AND ALLEYS.
For many years past it has been the practice
to flush the courts and alleys during the hot
months in the most crowded and poorest parts
of the City, by which accumulations of filth
are nightly washed away. This has been
followed by the free use of deodorants in the
channels running through the centres of the
smaller courts, and the gutters in the larger
ones.
The following lists of places shew where
this operation has been carried out:—