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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 1883
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Whitechapel]
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| Rooms disinfected with sulphurous-acid gas, after the occurrence of small-pox, fever, and scarlet-fever therein | |
| Articles, consisting of beds, bedding, clothing, &c., removed from rooms to the Stone Yard and disinfected in the Apparatus | 2043 |
| Articles burnt by consent | 23 |
| Yards of houses paved or the pavement repaired | 50 |
| Drains in houses improved | 74 |
| Dust-bins provided | 2 |
| Privies lime-washed, cleansed, and repaired | 124 |
| Water-supply provided or improved | 16 |
| Nuisances from dung and other offensive matter removed | 77 |
| Area-gratings, cellar-flaps, &c., repaired | 5 |
Several tortoises kept so as to be a nuisance removed.
Seventy-one baskets of plums were removed from the British and
Foreign Wharf and Carron Wharf and destroyed, the same being
unfit for human food.
The cow-houses in the District, 23 in number, and the slaughterhouses,
13, 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.
ANNUAL REPORT.
The number of births registered in this Distridl during the four
quarters of the year ended 29th September, 1883, has been 2504, and
the deaths 23 72, including 7 deaths of residents in the Fever Hospital,
and 2 deaths of residents in the Small Pox Hospital, and including
those of non-residents in the London Hospital (561). In the year
ended 30th December, 1882, the births were 2545, and the deaths
2345, including the deaths of 544 non-residents.
The deaths in the Workhouse have been 357, against 365 for the
year ended 30th December, 1832; and the deaths in the London
Hospital 805 against 762.
The population of the District, at the taking of the last census,
and published weekly in the Returns of the Registrar General, was
71,363.