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The following return shows the number of successful primary vaccinations
for each quarter during the year 1871 :
WHITECHAPEL UNION.—Return of the number of Cases Vaccinated by the Public
Vaccinator and the Medical Officer of the Workhouse, together with the number of
Births Registered during the year ended December 30th, 1871.
Quarter ending—
PUBLIC VACCINATOR'
Workhouse.
Totals.
Births
Primary
Cases.
Re-Vaccination.
Primary
Cases.
Re-Vaccination
Primary
Cases.
Re-Vaccination.
Registd.
March
727
1169
10
0
737
1169
747
June
357
038
21
0
378
538
569
September
186
12
35
0
221
12
602
December
134
6
27
0
161
6
653
Totals
1404
1725
93
0
1497
1725
2571
Sanitary Works Performed during the Quarter.
The following return shows the amount of work done by the Sanitary
Inspectors during the Quarter ending December 30th, 1871:—
Number of inspections of houses as shown in the official returns 3766
Number of rooms found to be overcrowded, the space being less than ")
300 cubic feet for each person, reckoning 2 children under 10 l 20
years of age for one adult; nuisance in each case abated )
Number of cases of indecent occupation discovered 19
Houses specially visited 222
Ditto specially re-visited 663
Houses specially visited at night 36
Number of special notices served for the registration of houses 13
Preliminary notices served, many of such notices embracing several houses 322
Compulsory orders issued, embracing 81 premises 47
Summonses heard at police-courts 4
Houses in which the rooms or passages have been whitewashed 148
Rooms disinfected with sulphurous acid gas after the occurrence of [
small-pox and fever therein .' j
Yards of houses paved or the pavement repaired 75
Drains in houses improved 93
Dust-bins provided 11
Privies limewashed, cleansed, and repaired 179
Water-butts and cisterns provided or repaired 30
Water-waste-preventers erected 10
Area gratings, cellar flaps, &c., repaired G
Nuisances from dung and other offensive matter removed 25
Cellars used as dwellings discontinued for such use 3
Pigs kept so as to be a nuisance removed 29
The cow-houses in the District, 24, and the slaughter-h&uses, 39 in
number, have been visited during the Quarter.
In addition to this return, the Inspectors report that they have forwarded
to the Metropolitan Board of Works several notices of dangerous structures,
which notices the Metropolitan Board have promptly attended to.