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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
Limehouse 1897
Report on the sanitary condition of the Limehouse District (comprising the Parishes of Limehouse, Shadwell, and Wapping, and the Hamlet of Ratcliff) for the year 1897
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| Bake-houses inspected | 40 | 28 | 20 | 88 |
| Licensed Slaughter-houses inspected | 2 | 1 | - | 3 |
| Legal proceedings, i.e.,Summonses | 13 | 11 | 2 | 26 |
| Houses closed, unfit for habitation | 2 | - | - | 2 |
| Houses demolished | - | 10 | 6 | 16 |
| Notices given to London County Council of dangerous and dilapidated premises | 31 | 40 | 12 | 83 |
| Drain test used | 861 | 850 | 318 | 2029 |
| Improved ventilation in houses | 180 | 117 | 17 | 314 |
| Basements discontinued to be used as dwellings | 1 | - | 3 | 4 |
| Drinking water supplies separate from the w.c.s | 18 | - | 5 | 23 |
| Animals removed | 1 | 14 | - | 15 |
| Cesspools abolished | 1 | 1 | 2 | 4 |
| Free Shelters inspected | - | 24 | - | 24 |
| New dung pits provided | 3 | 3 | 3 | 9 |
| Water closets discharging into the River Thames | - | - | 4 | 4 |
| Notices to provide crossings, area gratings, flaps and trap doors in footways | 4 | 22 | 30 | 56 |
| Samples taken under Sale of Food and Drugs' Act | 53 | 36 | 40 | 129 |
| Dust-bins defective | - | 4 | 2 | 6 |
| Licensed Cow-sheds inspected | 6 | 3 | 12 | 21 |
| Smoke nuisances abated | 9 | 2 | 12 | 23 |
*This does not include re-inspection to premises to ascertain works in progress; such, if added would
probably treble the number.
In addition to this, we have had destroyed, as unfit for human food, during the year the following articles,
viz:—3 Barrels of Roker, a quantity of Pineapples, Oranges and Bacon, 397 Cases of Eggs, 120 Cases of
Oranges, 50 Sacks of Potatoes, and 1 Case of Onions. JOHN WILLIAM JOHNSON
GEORGE OSBORNE PAVITT.
EDWIN THOMAS CROOK.