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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

West Ham 1899

Annual report of the Medical Officer of Health for the year 1899

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Table: arrangement will entail my ordering the following carts daily, so as never to vary more than three carts:—

arrangement will entail my ordering the following carts daily, so as never to vary more than three carts:—

MondayTuesdayWed.ThursdayFridaySaturdayTotal for Week
North292828262626163
South181817161617102
474645424243265

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It must bo clearly understood that this arrangement only affects
the number of carts ordered each day from the Stables; it can have
no effect upon the time occupied in the process of collection.
It will be remembered that, in my memorandum of the 22nd
March last, I published figures which led me to the conclusion that a
forty-eight hours week—judging by the time then occupied—could
be easily carried out if each cart did two loads per day, and the
Council empowered me to order a sufficient number for that purpose.