Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Whitechapel]
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TABLE I
Total number of Nuisances removed of every denomination | Works in progress but not completed | Number of Nuisances inspected in houses or in other Premises | Number of Courts visited according to new system | Number of Nuisances entered in Complaint Book | Summonses taken out | Cesspools | Notices served | Public Privies in Courts, &c, Cleansed | ||||
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For defective Drainage, &c | For other Nuisances | Destroyed* | Emptied j | Preliminary | Compulsory | |||||||
Total | 1,741 | 108 | 1,135 | 23 | 355 | 3 | 5 | 11 | 52 | 314 | 25 | 211 |
* Total number of Cesspools destroyed since the formation of the Board, 3431 |