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Hackney 1886

Report on the sanitary condition of the Hackney District for the year 1886

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Brought forward 7410
Number of Houses disinfected 425
Number of Cases of overcrowding abated 8
Number of Premises from which Pigs and other
animals were removed 19
Number of Premises from which stable dung and
other refuse were removed (excluding dust) 81
Number of filthy places cleansed 73
Number of other Nuisances removed (not included
under other headings) 1031
1637
Total number of Nuisances abated in 1886 9047
Number of Accummulations of Dust specially removed 1306*
„ „ Lodging Houses measured 350
„ „ Notices for disinfecting premises 425
„ „ Preliminary Notices served 3710
„ „ Peremptory ,, „ 937
„ „ Statutory „ „ 1099
Number of Letters sent out 1938
„ „ Persons summoned before a Magistrate 29
„ „ Copies of Summonses and Orders made out 174
„ „ Bodies deposited and taken to the Mortuary 76
„ „ Houses from which Bedding, &c., was removed
to be disinfected at the Board's apparatus 296
„ „ Articles disinfected at the Board's apparatus 1040
„ „ 2948 Packets and 495 Bottles of Disinfectants
supplied to the Poor 3443
„ „ Fish condemned unfit for human food (pads) 42
*Many persons send requests here for removal of dust instead of placing the
D cards in the window. All these, as well as complaints of non-removal, are
included in the above.