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 1896
Report on the sanitary condition of the City of London for the year 1896
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CONTENTS.
Vital Statistics 5
Vaccination 9
Artizans' Dwellings, Houndsditch 12
Notification of Infectious Disease 13
Cotton Street Shelter 15
Disinfection of Clothing, Bedding, &c 16
Coroner's Court 16
Sanitary Inspections 16
House Refuse Removal, &c 19
House to House Inspection 21
Houses let in Lodgings—New Bye-Laws 25
Factory and Workshops Acts 40
Dairies and Milk Shops 40
Bakehouses 41
Condemned Meat 44
Meat Supplies to City Markets 50
Chart of Meat Supply and Seizures, 1877 to 1896.
Slaughter Houses 54
Prosecutions against Senders of Bad Meat 54
Fish Supplies 60
Public Analyst's Report 64
APPENDIX.
A City Mortality Street Lists.
B Flushing of Courts, &c.
Map shewing Distribution of Infectious Diseases in the
City of London During 1896.
Map shewing House to House Inspections.