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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

Whitechapel 1858

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Whitechapel]

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Table: TABLE II.SUMMARY OF WORKS EXECUTED UP TO JULY 3rd, 1858.

TABLE II.

SUMMARY OF WORKS EXECUTED UP TO JULY 3rd, 1858.

[Limewhiting and Cleansing.Dust Bins erected.Houses repaired.Yards and Cellars re-paved.Water supplied for domestic use.Larger supply of Water given.Cesspools abolished.Cesspools cleansed.—No Sewerage.New House Drainage made.House Drainage improved, Trapped, &c.Cellars cleansed.Fiihy Privies cleansed.Water supply to Soil-pans.New Privies constructed.Pans to Privies provided.*Over-crowded Houses remedied.†Houses unfitted for Human habitation.Ventilation improved,Private Courts Paved.Filth in open places removed.‡Dangerous structures.Other nuisances removed,Dust,StagnantWater,&c.Dangerous Clellar Flaps and Area Gratings.
12416204917132336154090711667363784581538441339232911115713169672154
SUMMARY OF WORKS EXECUTED FOR QUARTER ENDING 2nd OCTOBER, 1858.
154753342006516323771352473513101218138122
Total13956955247552336160507011898133915101585471390263011125914983482176

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* Some of these cases came under the Lodging-house Act, and have been prosecuted by the Police; the others received Notices from the Inspectors.
{ Filthy Houses where Illness frequently existed. The Tenants had notice to quit, and the Houses were thoroughly cleansed,
t Notice given to Police, who have had the same repaired, and, in some instances, pulled down.