Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
Report on the sanitary condition of the Hackney District for the year 1891
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Brought forward 8938
Number of Houses disinfected 629
Number of Oases of overcrowding abated 25
Number of Premises from which Pigs and other
animals were removed 20
Number of Premises from which stable dung and other
refuse were removed (including dust) 88
Number of filthy places cleansed 13
Number of other Nuisances removed (not included
under other headings) 1853
Number of Leaky Water Fittings 187
Number of Houses from which the Water has been cut
off and re-instated 216
3018
Total number of Nuisances abated in 1891 11956
* Number of Accumulations of Dust specially removed 1653
Number of Preliminary Notices served 5008
Number of Peremptory Notices served 611
Number of Statutory Notices served 238
Number of Letters sent out 3924
Number of Persons Summoned before a Magistrate 41
Number of Copies of Summonses and Orders made out 131
Number of Bodies deposited and taken to the Mortuary 208
Number of Houses from which Bedding, &c., was
removed to be Disinfected at the Board's apparatus 629
Articles Disinfected at the Board's apparatus
Disinfectants supplied to the Poor
(botts) 412
(bags) 1590
Fish Condemned unfit tor human food (boxes) 7
„ „ „ (trunks) 4
Rabbits „ „ „ 22
Various 5
* 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.