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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
Whitechapel 1893
The annual report on the sanitary condition of the Whitechapel District, (with vital and other statistics), for the year 1893 (consisting of 52 weeks) being the tenth annual report
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some if I include here a list of summonses which were issuec during the year 1893
| Date. | Offence. | Result. |
|---|---|---|
| January 24th | Letting a house newly-built without a water certificate. | Fined. |
| „ | Underground room illegally occupied | „ |
| March 17 th | Sou pipe defective | Sumns. withdn. |
| „ | Underground room illegally occupied | „ |
| June 22nd | Non-completion of drainage works | „ |
| July 3rd | Selling rotten pineapples | Dismissed |
| „ 4th | „ | Fined |
| „3rd | Various sanitary defects | Order made |
| „ 3rd | „ „ | „ |
| 3rd | „ „ | „ |
| „11th | Selling rotten pineapples | Fined |
| September 14th | „ „ pears | „ |
| ,, 21st | „ „ „ | Defdt. absnded. |
| „22nd | „ bad fish | Fined. |
| „ 22nd | „ „ | Dismissed |
| „29th | Exposing infected person in public street | Fined |
| October 6th | Various sanitary defects. | Withdrawn. |
| November 14th | Adulterating milk. | Fined. |
| December 6th | Various sanitary defects. | Withdrawn. |
| „ | Letting new house without drainage thereto. | Fined |
Although it is necessary now and again to thus deal with
offenders, my experience harmonises with that in the history of the
Board, that it is generally possible by judicious action to obtain even
better results from friendly consultation than would be the case
were prosecutions more frequent.
And now, gentlemen, I have to invite your perusal of Table P*
wherein is set out the summary of your Inspectors' work during
the year. I have incorporated in this Report a letter which I have
received from those officers. Year after year I have felt it to be
my pleasant duty to commend their regular consistent work,
which, in the aggregate, amounts to the huge total detailed in
the Table. I can only repeat my former commendations, and
thank them for the genial and ready way in which they accept
and execute all my wishes. The results of those labours are thus
before 3'ou, and, in conclusion, I would merely ask that you will
not blame for defects discovered, but rather that you will be
content to award to them praise for much good work done during the
year, and to feel assured that very much more has been mapped
out to be gone through during the year, 1894.
* Page 32.