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

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Hackney 1890

Report on the sanitary condition of the Hackney District for the year 1890

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Brought forward 6776
Number of Houses disinfected 769
Number of Cases of overcrowding abated 23
Number of Premises from which Pigs and "other
animals were removed 16
Number of Premises from which stable dung and other
refuse were removed (including dust) 94
Number of filthy places cleansed 8
Number of other Nuisances removed (not included
under other headings) 1044
Number of Leaky Water Fittings 36
Number of Houses from which the Water has been cut
off and re-instated 183
2173
Total number of Nuisances abated in 1889 8949
*Number of Accumulations of Dust specially removed 1340
Number of Preliminary Notices served 4124
Number of Peremptory Notices served 495
Number of Statutory Notices served 186
Number of Letters sent out 3706
Number of Persons Summoned before a Magistrate 24
Number of Copies of Summonses and Orders made out 51
Number of Bodies deposited and taken to the Mortuary 214
Number of Houses from which Bedding, &c., was removed
to be Disinfected at the Board's apparatus 769
Articles Disinfected at the Board's apparatus 2431
Disinfectants supplied to the Poor (botts.) 1602
Fish Condemned unfit for human food (boxes) 9
,, (trunks) 1
Babbits 22
*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.