London's Pulse: Medical Officer of Health reports 1848-1972

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Hackney 1889

Report on the sanitary condition of the Hackney District for the year 1889

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Brought forward 7859
Number of Houses disinfected 300
Number of Oases of overcrowding abated 29
Number of Premises from which Pigs and other
animals were removed 6
Number of Premises from which stable dung and other
refuse were removed (including dust) 55
Number of filthy places cleansed 3
Number of other Nuisances removed (not included
under other headings) 572
1660
Total number of Nuisances abated in 1889 9519
"'Number of Accumulations of Dust specially removed 1269
Number of Preliminary Notices served 3457
Number of Peremptory Notices served 787
Number of Statutory Notices served 346
Number of Letters sent out 2383
Number of Persons Summoned before a Magistrate 22
Number of Copies of Summonses and Orders made out 38
Number of Bodies deposited and taken to the Mortuary 155
Number of Houses from which Bedding, &c., was
removed to be Disinfected at the Board's apparatus 337
Articles Disinfected at the Board's apparatus 1425
Disinfectants supplied to the Poor
(botts.) 208
(bags) 1331
Fish Condemned unfit for human food (boxes) 11
*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.