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Hackney 1887

Report on the sanitary condition of the Hackney District for the year 1887

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65
Brought forward 8000
Number of Houses disinfected 367
Number of Cases of overcrowding abated 28
Number of Premises from which Pigs and other
animals were removed 5
Number of Premises from which stable dung and
other refuse were removed (excluding dust) 46
Number of filthy places cleansed 12
Number of other Nuisances removed (not included
under other headings 1240
1698
Total number of Nuisances abated in 1887 9698
Number of Accumulations of Dust specially removed 1278*
„ „ Preliminary Notices served 3882
Peremptory „ „ 1427
„ „ Statutory „ „ 572
Number of Letters sent out 1853
,, ,, Persons summoned before a Magistrate 17
' „ „ Copies of Summonses and Orders made out 57
„ „ Bodies deposited and taken to the Mortuary 76
„ „ Houses from whioh Bedding, &c., was
removed to be disinfected at the Board's
apparatus 354
Articles disinfected at the Board's apparatus 1032
Disinfectants supplied to the Poor 1739 pkts. 288 bots.
Fish condemned unfit for human food (pads) 11
*Many persons send requests hero 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.