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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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In addition to the above, the Inspectors have had destroyed as unfit for human food during the year the following article.
viz : -99 bushels of apples, 101 barrels of pears, 74 bushels of plums, 18 bushels of apples, 45 boxes of grapes, 5 bushels
gooseberries, 4 bushels of cherries, 52 melons, 57 barrels of pine apples, 19 bags of onions, 31 bags of chestnuts, 7 sacks
turnips, 48 sacks of turnip tops, 300 boxes of chocolate creams, 16 cases of hares, 1 case of eggs, 1 ton 9 cwt. of whiting,
3 cwt. of haddocks, 1 cwt. of bream, and 2 boxes of kippered herrings.

Table: TABLE P.—SANITARY AND OTHER WORK PERFORMED BY THE INSPECTORS, 1893.

TABLE P.—SANITARY AND OTHER WORK PERFORMED BY THE INSPECTORS, 1893.

Classification of Work.Quarter ending Mar.25thQuarter ending June24thQuarter ending Sept. 30thQuarter ending Dec. 30th.Totals for the year.
Numbers of Inspections of Houses as shewn in the Official Returns550764265753496822654
Houses specially visited644105614366553791
Preliminary Notices served5387207417782777
Compulsory Orders issued1541227977432
Number of Letters sent144150224223741
Number of Telegrams sent811126111265
Summonses taken out underjPublic Health, London, Act4111319
„ „Adulteration of Food and Drugs Adls.........11
„ „ Housing of Working Classes Act...............
Cellars used as dwellings, caused to be discontinued to be so used144131142
Cases of overcrowding and indecent occupation in houses abated186152261
Houses in which walls and ceilings have been cleansed or repaired3133054884181524
Roofs of houses repaired43132945130
Ventilation of houses improved994224
Houses in which floorings of rooms, staircases, risers or treads, window sashes and frames, baluster rails, or fire stoves have been repaired23213029103
Eave-gutters and stackpipes provided or repaired93395238222
Nuisances from smoke abated1214118
Rooms disinfected with sulphurous acid gas, after the occurrence of cases of infectious diseases2873384583591442
Articles consisting of beds, bedding, clothing, &c., removed and disinfedted599467296111343722271
Articles burnt by consent51159378
Hackney Carriages disinfected.........44
Courts and yards of houses paved, or paving repaired10911310750379
Drainage of houses altered, improved, or re-constructed435155135154879
Traps to drains in houses, yards, or courts, improved419165147246977
Closet pans and traps re-set1719191368
Ventilation of closets improved186...529
Closets provided with a water supply and flushing apparatus, or defective water fittings repaired788311761339
Closets cleansed, repaired or re-construCted170123186145624
Urinals provided.........88
Walls of yards or courts limewashed53819315242
Water supply to houses provided or improved18152956118
Nuisances from dung and other offensive matter removed2628222096
Area-gratings, cellar-flaps, &c., repaired82...414
Houses closed by Magistrate's order, or by consent, as unfit for human habitation1...438
Dust-bins provided, or repaired, or removed and galvanised iron dust pails substituted141024452
Samples under sale of Food and Drugs Act submitted to the Public Analyst31333030124
Animals, kept so as to constitute a nuisance, removed121...4
Retention of dead bodies removed277925
Empty house used as a stable discontinued.........11
Workshops cleansed3024339
Workshops in which ventilated improved30.........30
Workshops in which overcrowding abated2317325
Workshops in which additional closet accommodation provided2...619
Workshops closed......2...2
Living and bed-rooms used a school discontinued2.........2
Dung-pits provided.221...5
Cesspools abolished......112