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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 1862
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Whitechapel]
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APPENDIX
TABLE I.
SUMMARY OF INSPECTIONS MADE AND WORKS EXECUTED
For the Quarter ending the 31st day of December, 1862.
From the 27th September to the 31st December, 1862, both inclusive.
| 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. | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| For defective Drainage, &c. | For other Nuisanccs. | Destroyed. | Emptied, &c. | Preliminary. | Compulsory. | |||||||
| Total | 1,642 | 43 | 1,310 | 17 | 681 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 43 | 462 | 17 | 511 |
Total number of Cesspools destroyed since the formation of the Board 3471. Closets to which water has been laid on or traps and pans furnished 2,490. New
dust-bins erected 2,670. Houses partly or wholly limewashed during tho quarter 410. This large number of houses limewhited has been occasioned by the
prevalence of Fever and other Epidemics occurring in them.