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Whitechapel 1889

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Whitechapel]

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COW-HOUSES.
WHITECHAPEL.
Address. To whom Licensed.
it, Black Lion Yard (both sides) John Davies.
6, Whites Row Evan Edwards.
7, Finch Street William James.
20, Chimber Street John Evan Jones.
33. Old Montague Street William Lambeth.
Plough Square William Lewis.
64, Old Montague Street Thomas Watson.
CHRIST CHURCH.
Saw Yard Daniel Barker.
6, Whites Row Catherine Edwards.
37, Hanbury Street David Felix.
155, Commercial Street Evan David Morgan.
15, Tilley Street John Johnson.
16, Grey Eagle Street James Webb.
MILE END NEW TOWN.
24, Underwood Street William Bryant.
23. Dunk Street Samuel Evans.
64, Pelham Street Henry Foster.
73, Baker's Row Henry Gibbs.
21, Spital Street John Williams.
NORTON FOLGATE.
7, White Lion Street Elizabeth Morgan.
SANITATION DURING THE YEAR 1889.
Three years having now elapsed since the Destructor Works
were opened in Wentworth Street—it seems fitting that some
observations should appear respecting the working of this most
important addition to the Sanitary machinery of the Whitechapel
District.
Circumstances had rendered it necessary that some other means
of dealing with the refuse of dust-bins should be exchanged for
that hitherto in use, which consisted in paying heavily for the
privilege of removing the nuisance from one District into another.
As the result of your deliberations the works were constructed, a
description of which transcribed from your Surveyor's Report, appeared
in my Annual Statement, soon after the Destructor was in
active operation.
It was anticipated that some opposition would be advanced to
a method which was novel so far as concerned the Metropolis. It
is due to the careful management of the furnaces, combined with
certain modifications as regards details, as well as to the completeness
of the original structure, that the present arrangements