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Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
Hackney 1904
Report on the sanitary condition of the Hackney District for the year 1904
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Contrary to expectation most of these places were found clean;
in only a small proportion of cases were there any structural insanitary
defects.
RIVER LEA
The following analysis of samples of water taken from sewage
effluents as they were passing into the river Lea indicate the kind and
extent of the pollution to which that river was exposed during the
summer months of 1904. Nothing has been done since to reduce the
pollution, so it may be accepted that the pollution is still continuing.