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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 1899

Report on the sanitary condition of the City of London for the year 1899

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Something, I admit, has been done recently
to make these dwellings more wholesome, by the
substitution of glazed earthenware for the old
wooden washing troughs in the laundries, which,
upon being demolished, were found in a most
disgusting condition from slugs and other
vermin.
ARTELAN WELL, STONEY LANE.
The well continues to give a supply sufficient
for the wants of the Artizans' Dwellings and the
Depot adjoining. Moreover, we were enabled to
help Whitechapel with water during the recent
drought.
The level of the water is now eleven feet
lower from the surface of the ground than it was
in 1892, but there has not been any material