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 1898
Report on the sanitary condition of the City of London for the year 1898
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explains to what extent the City of London is interested:—
| 1. Total population (day and night.) | 1,709 |
| 2. No. of houses supplied | 133 |
| 3. „ without cisterns | 77 |
| 4. „ with cisterns | 44 |
| 5. „ on constant service | 33 |
| 6. Tenement houses, or houses occupied by more than one family | 43 |
| 7. Empty premises | 12 |
The water was turned on three times a day, viz.,
6 a.m., 12 noon, and 6 p.m. for two hours each
time during the period of scarcity, and when we
remember that a very few years ago the New
River Company's general supply to the City was
only turned on for one hour a day, and often less,
it seems an absurdity to apply the term "water
famine," more especially as the East London
Water Company's representatives showed that
the daily supply equalled 24 gallons per head of
the population, an amount much in excess of that
furnished to some of the most important towns
in Great Britain.
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