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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 1897

Report on the sanitary condition of the City of London for the year 1897

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Your own Inspectors were thereupon instructed
to visit the premises in question,
notices were served, and eventually the defects
discovered in the following list were remedied:
Situation of Premises. Sanitary Improvements effected
65, Moorgate Street Additional w.c. provided and
overcrowding abated
1, Aldgate Avenue w.c. cleansed and repaired
3, Fore Street Avenue. Walls and ceilings cleansed
14, Aldgate Avenue w.c. cleansed, leakage made
good
60, Redcross Street Business removed to more commodious
premises
3, Castle Court Additional w.c. provided
7, Three Herring Court. Premises closed
5, Bridgewater Square. No cause of complaint found by
Sanitary Inspector
29, Middlesex Square. Choked w.c. unstopped
2, Bridgewater Square. Premises cleansed
79, Bishopsgate Wit'n. w.c. cleansed, partition repaired
and cistern covered
5, Church Row, Aid-
gate Premises vacated