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
Hanover Square 1862
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Hanover Square, The Vestry of the Parish of Saint George]
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No. of cases.
Extra water-closets erected 18
Common privies abolished and new water-closets
constructed 1078
Drains and sinks trapped 1099
Kitchens shut up as unfit for human habitation 37
Dwelling-rooms extra ventilated 48
Rooms in yards shut up as unfit for human habitation 3
New houses built where drainage was not connected
with the sewer 2
Water supply laid on where none 2
Old public disused sewers broken up under dwellings 3
Dogs, cats, and goats removed 12
Dangerous houses reported to police 28
Walls ditto ditto 23
Chimney stacks ditto ditto 26
Stables.
Cleansed and repaired with rooms over 40
Cesspools abolished 456
Yards paved, &c. 19
Old brick-drains broken up and pipe-drains laid down 86
Without water-closets, but drained water-closets
since erected 14
Without water-closets or drainage, since drained by
pipe-drains and water-closets erected 47
Inlets to drains trapped 434
Drained by pipe-drains, water-closets not required 39
Extra ventilated 4
Privies converted into water-closets 25
Drains cleansed and repaired 60
Cow-Yards.
Cesspools abolished 3
Old brick-drains taken up and pipe-drains laid down 12