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 City of London for the year 1895
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were received from Fresh Wharf, and destroyed.
Plums.—Thirty-nine bags of unsound plums
were removed from the Great Western Railway
Station, West Smithfield, and treated as
trade refuse.
Eggs.—Seven and half boxes, each containing
600 eggs, were removed from a warehouse
in Beer Lane, Thames Street, and destroyed
at the expense of the owners.
Grapes.—One of the Sanitary Inspectors
seized 16 barrels in the public streets, and
removed the same to the City Green Yard,
from whence they were taken to Lett's Wharf
and destroyed.
FACTORY AND WORKSHOP ACTS,
1878 TO 1891.
Ninety-three communications were received
from Her Majesty's Inspectors, relating to 9 cases
of notice given by firms about to occupy premises
for manufacturing purposes; 41 cases of change
of premises; and 43 cases in which my attention
was called to insanitary conditions.