London's Pulse: Medical Officer of Health reports 1848-1972
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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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Brought forward 10,801
| Flushing Apparatus— | |
| Repaired | 725 |
| New provided | 681 |
| Water Supply provided | 662 |
| Yard Paving — | |
| Repaired | 2,197 |
| New provided | 404 |
| Defects remedied in— | |
| Roofs | 1,631 |
| Floors | 802 |
| Staircases | 57 |
| Windows | 38 |
| Doors | 41 |
| Fireplaces | 32 |
| Walls and ceilings | 4,949 |
| Cesspools— | |
| Cleansed | 29 |
| Abolished | 11 |
| Ditches, Urinals, &c.— | |
| Cleansed | 6 |
| Filled up | 2 |
| Animals improperly kept | 47 |
| Offensive Accumulations | 220 |
| Overcrowding | 58 |
| Gipsies removed | 41 |
| Dung Pits— | |
| New provided | 46 |
| Carried forward | 23,480 |