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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 29th day of March, 1862.
From the 28th December, 1861, to the 29th March, 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 Nuisances. | Destroyed. | Emptied, &c. | Preliminary. | Compulsory. | |||||||
| Total | 1,994 | 78 | 1,209 | 20 | 212 | 0 | 0 | 19 | 31 | 245 | 13 | 363 |
Total number of Cesspools destroyed since the formation of the Board, 3450. Number of houses inspected, 10,017. Estimated
length of new Sewers, 14,050 feet. Closets to which water has been laid on or traps and pans furnished, 2407. New dust bins erected, 2126.
Houses partly or wholly limewashed, about 4000. Total number of nuisances removed, 48,691. Population in 1831, 64,141; in 1841, 71,87.9;
in 1851, 79,756; in 1861, 78,964.