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 1863
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Hanover Square, The Vestry of the Parish of Saint George]
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Rubbish 4
Stable badly drained 1
Complaint against Chelsea Water 1
Ditto cowhouses—want of license 1
Ditto ditto unlicensed slaughtering 1
Ditto ditto dung not removed 8
Frivolous 1
work done.
Houses cleansed or repaired 15
Ditto ventilated 4
Water laid on to closet 2
Closets cleansed or repaired 13
Water-butts cleansed or covered 2
Ditto new 1
Sinks trapped 5
New water-closets 6
Drains cleansed and repaired 17
New pipe-drains laid, or re-laid 12
Cesspools abolished 5
Sewers cleansed 2
Yards paved, cleansed, drained 3
Offensive earth removed 1
Dust-pit rebuilt or repaired 1
Leakages abated 3, pipe and boiler repaired 5
Rubbish removed 3
Stable newly drained by pipes 1
New water-pipe 1
Unlicensed slaughtering abolished 1
Number of notices served 13
Ditto summonses 1