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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| Ditto out of repair | 4 |
| Slops emptied into area | 1 |
| Ditto emptied on to lead flats | 1 |
| Defective ventilation | 2 |
| Paving in yard out of repair | 4 |
| Pipe drains loosely laid | 1 |
| Houses or rooms white-washed, cleansed, or repaired | 109 |
| Ditto ventilated | 5 |
| Yards cleansed | 2 |
| "Water laid on to closet | 9 |
| Water-closets cleansed or repaired | 30 |
| Supply-pipes to ditto repaired | 2 |
| Water-butts cleansed or covered | 1 |
| Dilapidated houses shut up | |
| Water-closet connected with sewer | 1 |
| Mews whitewashed and cleansed | 2 |
| Lead flats cleansed | 1 |
| Dust-pits cleansed | 1 |
| Stagnant water removed | |
| Traps supplied | 11 |
| New water-closets | 4 |
| Cisterns repaired | |
| Ditto erected | 4 |
| Wash-house limewashed | 2 |
| Ditto paved | |
| Dung-heaps removed | 7 |
| Heap of decomposed fish removed |