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
Mile End 1871
The fifteenth annual report of the Vestry of the Hamlet Mile End Old Town in the county of Middlesex
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Sanitary Inpector's Retort of Works Executed during the year 1870- 71.
| Houses and premises connected with, new sewers | 76 |
| Old drains abolished | 43 |
| Traps provided to drains and closets | 490 |
| Houses cleansed and purified | 133 |
| Houses disinfected where small-pox had occurred | 194 |
| Houses visited where contagious diseases had occurred and notices left re contagious diseases | 160 |
| Foul drains cleansed | 155 |
| Dust bins provided | 221 |
| Accumulations of dung and refuse removed | 24 |
| Premises from which pigs were removed | 10 |
| Yards repaved | 32 |
| Dung pits abolished | 3 |