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Hackney 1904
Report on the sanitary condition of the Hackney District for the year 1904
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However, on comparing the average weekly " refusals " and " no
answers " of last year, 1904, with those of the year, 1899, which I
have made in the following table, it will be seen that during the year
1904 a great advance has been made on 1899. Whereas the total
average " refusals " and " no answers " of the latter year amounted
to 10,411, the total weekly average for the former year only amounted
to 5,662. That is to say, that during 1904 there was a reduction in the
average weekly number of " refusals " amounting to nearly 43 per
cent. and a reduction in the average weekly number of " no
answers " amounting to nearly 60 per cent.
| Months. | Refusals. | No answers. | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1899. | 1904. | 1899. | 1904. | |
The interesting question which now arises is what this improvement
is due to. On looking through the tables for previous years, I